After attending the White House Easter Egg Roll event on April 21, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth lashed out at what he called media “hoaxters” as he defended himself against reports claiming that he shared sensitive information for a second time in a chat on the Signal app.
US President Donald Trump said he stands behind Hegseth who he said had done a great job since assuming office on Jan 25.
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US President Donald Trump said he stands behind Hegseth who he said had done a great job since assuming office on Jan 25.
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00:00Are you ready?
00:02I'm going to go one, two, three, go!
00:04One, two, three, go!
00:06One, two, three, go!
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00:18Mr. Secretary, help the Easter Egg Bowl, sir.
00:20Hey, we're happy to be here at the Easter Egg Bowl,
00:22I'll tell you that.
00:24It's been a beautiful day, and President Trump has changed the country.
00:28You know, what a big surprise that a bunch of,
00:32a few leakers get fired and suddenly a bunch of hit pieces come out
00:36from the same media that peddled the Russia hoax,
00:40won't give back their Pulitzers.
00:42They got Pulitzers for a bunch of lies.
00:44Pulitzers for a bunch of lies.
00:46And on hoaxes, time and time and time again.
00:50And as they peddle those lies, no one ever calls them on.
00:54See, this is what the media does.
00:56They take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees,
01:00and then they try to slash and burn people,
01:02and ruin their reputations.
01:04Not gonna work with me.
01:05Because we're changing the Defense Department,
01:08putting the Pentagon back in the hands of warfighters,
01:11and anonymous smears from disgruntled former employees on old news,
01:15doesn't matter.
01:16So I'm happy to be here at the Easter Egg Bowl with my dad and my kids.
01:20Because, you know, this is what we're doing it for.
01:22These kids right here.
01:23This is why we're fighting the fake news media.
01:26This is why we're fighting slash and burn Democrats.
01:28This is why we're fighting hoaxters.
01:31Hoaxters.
01:32This group, no, no, no.
01:33This group right here.
01:34Full of hoaxters.
01:35That peddle anonymous sources from leakers with axes to grind.
01:40And then you put it all together as if it's some news story.
01:45And when we know it, you know exactly what it is.
01:47So I'm really proud of what we're doing for the President.
01:50Fighting hard across the board.
01:52And I'm gonna go roll some Easter eggs with my kids.
01:55Thank you very much.
01:56Have you spoken with the President, sir?
01:57Have you spoken with the President?
01:58Have spoken to the President, and we are gonna continue fighting
02:01on the same page all the way.
02:03I mean, I hear they're doing that whole thing again.
02:18Here we go again.
02:20Just a waste of time.
02:21He is doing a great job.
02:24Why do you still have confidence?
02:25Because he's doing a great job.
02:26Have you spoken with Arnold or anything later?
02:28Ask the hoodies how he's doing.
02:30Pete's doing a great job.
02:33Everybody's happy with him.
02:35We have the highest recruitment numbers I think we've had in 28 years.
02:39No, he's doing a great job.
02:42It's just fake news.
02:43They just bring up stories.
02:44I guess it sounds like this grunt to old employers.
02:47You know, he was put there to get rid of a lot of bad people.
02:50And that's what he's doing.
02:51So, you don't always have friends with him.
02:53Please stop using the app.
03:00So, I have time and a little bit to make up.
03:01So, if you start doing an app.
03:02There we go, if we don't have a little bit of big work
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03:04Then, you know, it's a little bit.
03:05That's what we do.
03:18So, we have a lot of śrub.
03:19And Jan has been working together for me to learn products.