President Trump held a surprise news briefing alongside Dana White, using the occasion to defend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against an impeachment push. Trump said he would stand by Hegseth even if impeached.<\/p>\n
The president also claimed, "We won the war in Iran," a statement that came despite ongoing conflict in the region.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> NBC News \u2014 Trump defends Pete Hegseth at surprise news briefing with Dana White<\/a>. Also reported by NBC News<\/a>, Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Trump held a surprise news briefing alongside Dana White, using the occasion to defend…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[508,437,87,315,343],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-j-trump","tag-dana-white","tag-impeachment","tag-iran","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}