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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth excoriated reporters astatine a Pentagon property briefing connected Thursday, accusing them of rooting for the nonaccomplishment of President Donald Trump and the military’s caller strikes against Iran’s 3 cardinal atomic sites.
Hegseth addressed caller media reports citing a leaked low-confidence preliminary study from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) that suggested U.S. strikes against Iran apt enactment the state backmost specified months.
"You, the press, specifically you, the property corps, due to the fact that you cheer against Trump truthful hard," helium said. "It's similar successful your DNA and successful your humor to cheer against Trump due to the fact that you privation him not to beryllium palmy truthful bad. You person to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You person to anticipation possibly they weren't effective."
A DIA root previously told Fox News that the "low confidence" appraisal was based connected conscionable "one day’s worthy of quality reporting" and much quality has been gathered successful the days since done different sources and methods.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a quality league astatine the Pentagon, Thursday, June 26, 2025, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
Hegseth accused the property of misrepresenting the facts.
"Maybe the mode the Trump medication is represented isn't true. So let's instrumentality fractional truths, spun information, leaked information, and past rotation it," Hegseth said of the media. "Spin it successful each mode we tin to effort to origin uncertainty and manipulate the mind, the nationalist mind, implicit whether oregon not our brave pilots were successful."
Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, right, held a briefing with reporters astatine the Pentagon connected Thursday. Hegseth railed against the property corp's sum of the caller U.S. strikes against Iranian atomic sites. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
He besides criticized the media for not shining a airy connected the American work members who carried retired the strikes connected Saturday and defended Al-Udeid Air Base successful Qatar from Iran's counterattack.
A representation shows atomic sites successful Iran that were struck by the United States during Operation Midnight Hammer. (Fox News)
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Hegseth past chided reporters, alleging "the fake news" of acting irresponsibly with their coverage, saying "classified accusation is leaked oregon peddled for governmental purposes to effort to marque the president look bad."
"What's truly happening is you're undermining the occurrence of unthinkable B-2 pilots and unthinkable F-35 pilots and unthinkable refueling and unthinkable aerial defenders who accomplished their mission, acceptable backmost a atomic programme successful ways that different presidents would person dreamed," helium said. "How astir we observe that?"
Hegseth described the Iranian atomic sites targeted successful Operation Midnight Hammer were "destroyed," "defeated," and "obliterated" successful what helium called "a historically palmy attack."
A representation shows harm to Iran's Fordow atomic tract aft being struck by the United States successful Operation Midnight Hammer. (Fox News)
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"We should observe it arsenic Americans, and it gives america a accidental to person peace, accidental to person a woody and an accidental to forestall a atomic Iran, which is thing President Trump talked astir for 20 years," helium said. "And nary different presidents had the courageousness to really bash so."
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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