The White House on Monday rejected a report that the Trump administration is contemplating changing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
“FAKE NEWS,” White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt slammed the NPR News report that claimed the administration is searching for a brand new protection chief.
“This NPR story is total FAKE NEWS based on one anonymous source who clearly has no idea what they are talking about,” she wrote on X.
Leavitt additionally famous that “as the President said this morning, he stands strongly behind the Secretary of Defense.”
Calls for Hegseth’s resignation come after Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic journal, revealed final month that he was inadvertently included in a messaging group the place US Vice President JD Vance, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Hegseth, and different senior officers mentioned plans for an assault on Houthi targets in Yemen hours earlier than it occurred on March 15.
Several Democrats, together with Mark Warner, the highest Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, known as for the resignation of senior officers.
Source: www.anews.com.tr