Donald Trump has admitted he is fielding calls urging him to fire Pete Hegseth, but insists he will keep his Defense Secretary, hours after the Daily Mail revealed he was quietly asking advisers whether to ditch him.
‘I have every intention to keep him,’ the president told ABC News.
But he conceded the Pentagon chief has critics in his ear. ‘I get these calls, you know, about him. I don’t understand why,’ Trump added.
The public show of support sits awkwardly with the picture insiders gave the Daily Mail, who said Trump spent Wednesday working the phones and asking a handful of close
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