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Vice President Vance said earlier Wednesday that he was confident in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who head of the Pentagon conducted a brand new review of his signal chat usage.
“I have 100% confidence in the secretary. I know the president does, and the entire team does,” Vance told reporters during his trip to India.
“It’s one of the weirdest things about the Hegseth nomination. From the beginning, the media seemed to want to accept it, and when they failed, he was confirmed, they decided to keep trying to destroy Pete Hegseth, destroy Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, and I think he’s excellent,” added the VICE President.
Hegseth and the White House tried to criticize his defense through a second signal chat, allegedly sharing Houthi’s strike plan with his family and attorneys, and several top aides were fired after investigating an internal leak.
In his speech Wednesday, Vance noted that Hegseth brought “a certain spirit” to the Department of Defense, pointing out the figures that have recruited multiple branches since President Trump was elected in November.
“If you look at the number of military recruits we have, that’s mine – I think the best proof of his military leadership is that we have had no horrible recruitment issues in the military, the navy and the air force for a long time,” he said. “It’s a great proof of his leadership. Frankly, the media talks more about it than anonymous procurement from random employees.”
Hegseth faced calls from Democrats and at least one Republican and at least one Republican resigned after the New York Times reported that he shared a radical strike plan with his wife, brother and lawyer in a signaling group chat.
The Pentagon head did not retreat. He said on “Fox & Friends” that information shared in the signal threads created during the confirmation process was reportedly “unclassified” and “informal.” Like Vance, he also exploded the characteristics of the media.
Hergs’ response echoed an argument he made last month after Atlantic Chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he was accidentally in a separate signal chat with top Trump officials in a discussion of Yemen’s attack on Yemen’s Hossis.
The Defense Secretary also accused the recently fired adviser who chose to serve in that position earlier this year for hindering Trump’s agenda.
“At this point, those who were leaked were kicked out of the building and are now trying to leak and undermine the president’s agenda and what we are doing,” Heggss said Tuesday. “That was unfortunate. It’s not what I’m going to do. It’s not how we operate.”
He added: “The disgruntled former employees are selling something trying to save A.” Later, it was suggested that they might face impact. “Eventually, that won’t work.”
The White House also said it still has confidence in Heggs. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday that Trump “was strongly behind Secretary Heggs and the changes he brought to the Pentagon, and what he has achieved so far speaks for himself.”