Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is being criticized for bringing his wife to two meetings with foreign military officials.
Hegseth's wife, Jennifer Hegseth, was seen in photos during his March 6 meeting with his U.K. defense counterpart. This started a fury among left-wing media, which began complaining about Hegseth's wife attending the meeting.
Hegseth, as Defense Secretary, is allowed to invite whomever he wants to his meetings. It's typical for meeting attendees to be a "need to know" status, but that is a decision that is ultimately up to the Defense Secretary.
That hasn't stopped the mainstream media from attempting to generate yet another hoax of a story about security protocols.
Just last week, leftist outlet The Atlantic attempted to push a story that U.S. war plans were leaked in a Signal chat. Turns out the chat, involving Hegseth and other key Trump administration members, contained no detailed information, and The Atlantic was forced to correct the story.
The mainstream media has been gunning for Hegseth ever since President Donald Trump announced his nomination as Defense Secretary.
First, there was a false accusation of sexual assault that the mainstream media didn't bother to fact-check. After accusing Hegseth of sexual assault in 2017, it emerged that Hegseth was the real victim who had been assaulted.
When that story failed to stop Hegseth's confirmation, the mainstream leftist media began pushing unfounded stories that Hegseth was an abusive alcoholic who was a danger to his family. Now, the mainstream media is complaining about Hegseth's wife being at meetings with foreign dignitaries.
It didn't take long for former Obama official Chuck Hagel to complain about Jennifer Hegseth's presence at meetings by saying, "When you have meetings with ministers or high-level NATO officials, those meetings almost always include sensitive security conversations. If you are going to discuss top secret, national security issues, you have to be very selective. What’s the relevancy of the person you are inviting?"
Of course, there was no evidence that sensitive material was discussed, and there is nothing indicating that Hegseth was breaking security protocols by having his wife in attendance.
Like the other stories targeting Hegseth and other Trump officials, there is no substantive issue outside of wild speculation by leftist partisans and establishment figures.
The Trump administration is extremely popular with the American people thanks to aggressive foreign policy and thorough domestic policies.
This has forced a desperate mainstream media to grasp at straws to attack the Trump administration. From the Signal story to this latest story about Hegseth's wife, the desperation of the mainstream media is apparent.
This will only get worse in the coming months as the Trump administration continues to succeed, especially on contentious foreign policy issues.
