Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday he will not withdraw from consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump's Defense Secretary despite mounting controversies and reports about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis being considered to replace him.
"I'm doing this for the warfighters, not the warmongers," said Hegseth in a publication on X. "The Left is afraid of disrupters and change agents. They are afraid of Donald Trump and me. So they smear with fake anonymous sources & BS stories. They don't want truth. Our warriors never back down, & neither will I," he added.
