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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Donald Trump The military recently launched a strike on three major nuclear sites in Iran.
Hegseth mentioned in recent media reports that a leaked low-trust preliminary report from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) suggested that the U.S. strike against Iran could keep the country for only a few months.
“You, the media, especially the press, because you’re so hard at Trump,” he said. “It’s like cheering Trump in your DNA and in your blood because you hope he won’t succeed so badly. You have to cheer for the performance of these strikes. You have to hope they maybe they’re not working.”
Diameter source Telled Fox News before The assessment of “low confidence” is based solely on “the value of intelligence reporting for a day” and more intelligence has been collected since other sources and methods.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke at a press conference at the Pentagon in Washington on Thursday, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
Heggs accused the media of misrepresenting the facts.
“Maybe the way the Trump administration is represented is not true. So let’s take half the truth, introduce the information, leak information, and then spin it up,” Hess said of the media. “We make it suspicious in various ways and manipulate the mind, the public mind to see if our brave pilots succeed.”
Hegseth and co-chief chairman General Dan Caine held a briefing at the Pentagon with reporters. Hegseth opposes News Corp’s recent reports of the strike on Iran’s nuclear sites. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
He also criticized the media for not illuminating it US Service Member He went on strike on Saturday and defended the Al-udeid air base in Qatar where Iran counterattacked.
A map shows Iran’s nuclear site being hit by the United States during Operation Midnight Hammer. (Fox News)
Trump defeated CNN as a “braveless loser” to report our strike against Iran
Heggs then mocked the reporters, accusing “false news” to report irresponsibly and said “confidential information was leaked or sold out to make the president look bad.”
“What’s really going on is that you’re destroying the incredible B-2 pilots and the incredible F-35 pilots and the incredible refueling and incredible air defenses who completed the mission and restored the nuclear program in a way other presidents would dream of dreaming.” “How about we celebrate this?”
Heggs described Iranian nuclear site The goal of the midnight operation was to be “destroyed,” “beaten” and “eliminate,” which he called “a successful attack in history.”
A map caused damage to Iran’s Fudo nuclear site after being hit by the United States in the Midnight Hammer Operation. (Fox News)
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“We should celebrate it with Americans, and that gives us the opportunity to get peace, the opportunity to reach a deal and prevent nuclear Iran, which President Trump has talked about in 20 years,” he said. “And no other president has the courage to actually do so.”
Brooke Singman of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
