The Korea Times
WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited biblical scripture on Thursday to attack the media, comparing reporters to Jewish adversaries of Jesus Christ plotting "how to destroy him." Hegseth's comments sought to counter what he saw as negative coverage of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. They also came amid an escalating feud between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo, the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church and a critic of the war. That feud took a new turn this week when the U.S. president posted images on social media of Jesus embracing him and Trump himself as a Jesus-like figure. Hegseth, whose Christianity has become a focus of his tenure as the head of the Pentagon, used his opening remarks at a Pentagon briefing on the Iran war to reflect on a Sunday sermon about how Pharisees sought to undermine Jesus even after watching him perform a miracle. Their hearts were hardened against Jesus, Hegseth said, and "the Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel against him, how to destroy him." "I sat there in church and I thought, our press are just like these
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