Pete Hegseth, who made a strange attack on his former Fox News colleague and refused to answer the questions directly.
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A Pentagon press conference descended to chaos On Thursday after Pete Hegseth, ex -Fox News AmpfiTrion, was put on his ex -Collega.
In what was widely seen as a choreographed press event for an audience (the president himself), the secretary directed against what he called the “fake news” media.
During the event, a video was shown about the capabilities of the bombs used in the RAID, but not the images of the United States attack on Iran. Came as Donald Trump raised a new dementia after viewers discovered a mystery track in their clothes.
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Hegseth, who leaked in classified information himself, was furious at filtered intelligence, which suggests that such an operation Midnight Hammer had re -established the Nuclear Program of Iran in a few months.
“Maybe there will be a little mention here or there, but because he was under the leadership of President Trump … The press body does not want to write about it,” Hegseth smoked.
“This brings us to the topic of the moment: the strikes with great success in Iran.”
But it was an exchange with Fox News National Security Correspondent, Jennifer Griffin, which caused the strangest moment of the event.
Griffin asked Hegseth if the Pentagon could confirm that all of Iran’s very enriched uranium had been at the Fordow installation at the time of the strike, quoting satellite images showing trucks that came out of the place two days earlier.
Instead of directly replying, Hegseth was launched on a personal tirade.
“Of course, we are seeing all aspects. But Jennifer has been the worst. The one who most intentionally represents what the President says. I’m a family member,” he said.
Griffin, clearly taken, responded calmly that he had first been accurately reporting on the key details of the raid, including the use of B-2 bomber and the supply logistics.
But Hegseth doubled, thanking him -sarcastically “acknowledging that this was the most successful mission based on the operational security that this department has done since you have been here.”
Throughout the informative session, Hegseth dismissed the Pentagon intelligence evaluations, filtered in the press, as a “low -confidence report,” saying that the media ignored the success of the strike on political bias.
At one point, he told a journalist that the media should “stir a North -American Flag” and “be proud of what we did.”
In the meantime, Trump was putting live on social truth during the press conference.
“The rumor is that the New York Times and the fake news that CNN will say goodbye to the journalists who formed false stories in Iran’s nuclear places because they were wrong,” he wrote. “Let’s see what happens?”
The tensions fired again when an associated journalist Press tracked Griffin’s original question, which he asked Hegseth to claim that he was not aware of any intelligence to show that uranium had moved.
However, preliminary evaluations shared with the North Allies -Americans have indicated that Iran transferred much of their nuclear stock before the bombing raid.
The press conference, aimed at being a show of strength, emphasized the deep divisions between the Trump administration and the intelligence community, while reinforcing criticism of the politicization of the Department of Defense.
Fox & Friends of Fox News did not reach Griffin’s defense when they returned to the air, instead of praising Hegseth’s “emotional” performance.
“It was furious for all the media to focus on this preliminary report,” said Ainsley Earhardt’s co-amfitrió. “This was leaked and usually wrong.”
Griffin, later brought to the program, did not mention the personal insults made by Hegseth.