Pete Hegseth: Moderator undertakes in an interview in an interview

Pete Hegseth is at the moment a lot of criticism. As soon as the US defense minister had survived the revelations about military secrets in a chat group that also belonged to a journalist, the next affair was already followed. Hegseth is also said to have shared military information via chat with his wife and other people.

In an interview with Fox News, however, the minister had to expect few critical questions. After all, the television station is considered to be extremely Trump-friendly, and Hegseth used to work there as a moderator. But moderator Brian Kilmeade undertook a promise when the 44-year-old was presented. He called Hegseth the “former Defense Minister”, but quickly improved to “incumbent Minister of Defense”.

Maybe a meaningful promise, because it is actually speculated whether Hegseth will soon be rid of his office. The Pentagon boss is under great pressure, but still holds President Donald Trump to him. Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that against Hegseth a “defamation campaign”, the Minister of Defense doing “a great job”.

In the FOX news interview, Hegseth chose the well-known path: escape to the front by all-round. Former Pentagon employees passed on information to the media. “Once a leaker, always a leaker, often a leaker,” he said. “I don’t have time for Leaker. I have no time for the press that spreads old stories of angry employees.” Hegseth complained that the media would be targeting him from the beginning of his term.

The Defense Minister was a member of a chat group in the Messenger app Signal, in which military plans were shared on attacks on the Huthi-Miliz in Yemen. The journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who made the process publicly, was also accidentally invited. According to a report by the “New York Times”, Hegseth is also said to have chatted the information to family members. The Defense Minister himself denies that he has passed on confidential information.

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