President Donald Trump announced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the first top administration official to support U.S. military attacks against Iran. Trump made this statement during a Safe Task Force roundtable in Memphis, Tennessee, where Hegseth was sitting beside him.
“Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up, and you said let’s do it because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said, according to The Hill, pointing to Hegseth’s early support for the military action. The operations began in late February and are now in their fourth week.
