Watch: Def. Sec. Hegseth goes ‘scorched earth’ on biased media over Trump attacks

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday called out the media’s criticisms of the Trump administration’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities.

“You – and I mean specifically you, the press – you cheer against Trump so hard,” he said. “It’s in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump, because you want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they weren’t effective.

“Maybe the way the Trump administration is representative isn’t true. So let’s take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it – spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind, over whether or not our brave pilots were successful.

“How many stories have been written about how hard it is to, I don’t know, fly a plane for 36 hours? Has MSNBC done that story? Has Fox?  Have we done the story how hard that is?”

Watch his remarks here: