Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has had it with fake, “low-confidence” reports stating that the damage done to Iran’s nuclear facilities is not severe.
Hegseth unloaded while taking questions during a press conference at the NATO Summit in The Hague this week.
“There’s a reason the president calls out fake media for what it is,” Hegseth began. “These pilots, these refuelers, these fighters, these air defenders, the skill and courage it took to go into enemy territory flying 36 hours on behalf of the American people and the world is beyond what anyone in this audience can fathom.”
Hegseth continued: “The instinct of CNN, the instinct of The New York Times is to try and find a way to spin it for their own political reasons to try to hurt President Trump and our country. They don’t care what our troops think. They don’t care what the world thinks. They want to spin it to try to make him look bad based on a leak.”
“What do leakers do? They have agendas. And what do they do? Do they share the whole information? or just the part that they want to introduce?” Hegseth continued, adding that the leaks were “low confidence.”
“All of the evidence of what was just bombed … is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated. So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Furdow, you better get a big shovel and dig deep.”
Watch the clip below:
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PETE HEGSETH: “If you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you’d better get a big shovel and go really deep, because Iran’s nuclear program is OBLITERATED.” 🔥🔥pic.twitter.com/jofOpUZRek
— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) June 25, 2025
