When a defense secretary must publicly argue he is not an embarrassment to the president, he has already lost, according to a writer who has supported Trump since 2016. The piece argues that Hegseth should resign, framing his continued presence as a liability rather than an asset to the administration.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> The Atlantic \u2014 I\u2019ve Been With Trump Since 2016. Hegseth Should Resign.<\/a>. Also reported by thehill.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n Pete Hegseth, resignation, defense secretary, Trump administration, Cabinet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When a defense secretary must publicly argue he is not an embarrassment to the president, he has already lost, according to a writer who has supported\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,2],"tags":[317,316,315,402,277],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-j-trump","category-military","category-politics","tag-cabinet","tag-defense-secretary","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-resignation","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}