Trump Says Pentagon Pete Is Thirsting for Longer Iran War

Evan Vucci/Reuters President Donald Trump indicated that the U.S. is close to ending its war with Iran on Tuesday, but he claimed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants it to keep going. The president was speaking in the Oval Office after the swearing-in of former Sen. Markwayne Mullin as the new Secretary of Homeland Security when he made the admission. “You know, the only two people that were quite disappointed, I don’t want to say this, but I have to,” Trump began. “I said, ‘Pete and General Razin Caine, I think this thing is going to be settled very soon,’ and they go, ‘Oh, that’s too bad.’” Read more at The Daily Beast.

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