{"id":872,"date":"2026-07-02T22:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/?p=872"},"modified":"2026-07-02T22:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:10:41","slug":"hot-news-pete-hegseth-says-trump-told-him-keep-fighting-amid-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"HOT NEWS: Pete Hegseth Says Trump Told Him \u2018Keep Fighting\u2019 Amid Allegations\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><em>President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Defense Department intimated during a hallway interview at the U.S.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1987350\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Former Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth, an Army officer with documented combat experience, said that he spoke with Trump earlier in the day and that the president-elect encouraged him to \u201ckeep fighting. \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI spoke to the President-elect this morning. He said keep going, keep fighting\u2026 Why would I back down? I\u2019ve always been a fighter,\u201d he told a reporter.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1970893\" data-uid=\"12f0d\">\n<div id=\"mgw1970893_12f0d\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mgheader\" data-template-type=\"header\" data-template-placed=\"before\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Asked directly if he was thinking of withdrawing his name amid the allegations, Hegseth said he was on Capitol Hill to meet with senators and that would continue<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Defense Department intimated during a hallway interview at the U.S. Former Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth, an Army officer with documented combat experience, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}