Vice President-elect J.D. Vance on Friday reiterated his and President-elect Donald Trump's support for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, who has been dogged by a persistent smear campaign.
“Pete Hegseth will have a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, not a sham hearing in front of the American media,” he said while touring hurricane-ravaged North Carolina. He continued:
We believe Pete Hegseth is the right person to lead the Department of Defense, which is why President Trump nominated him. We have no intention of abandoning this nomination. We are not going to make it easy for the public to let the media decide who the Secretary of Defense is. Donald J. Trump won the election by a very large margin with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. That determines who the Secretary of Defense is.
“I fully support Pete. I think Pete will be approved and we fully support him,” he said.
He added that he had spoken with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who is rumored to be behind the campaign against Hegseth, and other senators who have expressed doubts about him. All I'm asking is that people actually do that and allow the Senate process to work. We do not base decisions on important government officials on anonymous sources from American media. ”
“We determine our officials through the nomination process, the advice and consent process of the U.S. Senate, and that's how it should be and how presidential nominees approach this process,” he said. concluded.
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