Pete Hegseth is in big troubleand it looks like impeachment against him is imminentso Donald Trump decided he had to hold a press conference in the Brady Briefing Room to save his defense secretary.

Trump could have defended Hegseth based on his competence in leading the military, but a look at the course of the Iran war undermined that defense.

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The president decided that the best defense he could muster for Hegseth was something so crazy that it had to be seen and heard to be believed.

Trump said:

He definitely, I think he won the war in Iran, but he’s definitely winning the war. Iran would like to make a deal and they have been wiped out, their navy and their air force.

So he won the war in two places, two big places, very important, very effective, and they were won. They’re not like Vietnam, where nothing was won, or Afghanistan, or Iraq, or any of those wars where nothing was won. There was nothing gained, just a lot of death, and then let’s go. In one case he isn’t, they won’t have a nuclear weapon. On the other hand, we make hundreds of billions of dollars for this country.

So I’ll say this: Pete Hegseth won two wars.

Oh, let’s charge him. How about impeaching the Biden gentleman who disappeared for two weeks and no one had any idea where he was? How about indicting the people who fought the Vietnam War?