Hegseth ties impeachment efforts against him to attacks on Trump and troops

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth spent his first press conference since the House began considering articles of impeachment tying its efforts to remove him from his position to attacks on the president and the troops he oversees.

Hegseth declared that the impeachment effort led by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is a “political spectacle,” focused on “policy disagreements, not high crimes, not misdemeanors, not treason, not bribery, not the kinds of offenses the founders intended when they wrote the impeachment clause.”

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