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Scarborough on Hegseth: ‘He Needs to Go’

Joe Scarborough used four words regarding War Secretary Pete Hegseth — “He needs to go.” Scarborough, host of “Morning Joe,” took to X to voice his opinion about the Washington Post report about President Donald Trump…

Sandra RhodesAug 6, 20262 min read

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Joe Scarborough used four words regarding War Secretary Pete Hegseth — “He needs to go.”

Scarborough, host of “Morning Joe,” took to X to voice his opinion about the Washington Post report about President Donald Trumpand Hegseth clashing over what The Post said as “extreme munitions shortages that now threaten to limit military options with Iran.”

Scarborough called this an “unforgivable blunder” made even worse by Hegseth’s refusal to acknowledge any such shortage.

“When Hegseth attacks media questions on this extreme munitions shortage as ‘fake news,’ he makes this unforgivable blunder worse,” Scarborough posted. “Congress needs to take action. Americans need the truth. Hegseth can’t give it. He needs to go.”

https://x.com/ScarboroughNow/status/2085315596871188770?s=20

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denied the story after it was published Wednesday night.

“I was at Camp David with President Trump and Secretary Hegseth. This literally never happened, and we told the Washington Post that repeatedly,” Leavitt wrote on X. “This B.S. story was shopped to many outlets by someone clearly out to disparage the Secretary, for whatever reason. Unfortunately for them, the President loves the Secretary and thinks he’s doing a tremendous job. FAKE NEWS!”

https://x.com/PressSec/status/2085181927397409131?s=20

Hegseth’s chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, also denied the story.

“We told the Washington Post the same thing,” Parnell wrote on X. “They ran with the fake, anonymously sourced BS anyway. Complete & total Fake News.”

Trump turned to Truth Social shortly after midnight Thursday and said there were “leakers.@

“The U.S. has massive amounts of ‘munitions,’ especially of certain types,” Trump wrote. “Additionally, large amounts are being manufactured and shipped to the U.S. as needed. Defense companies are building the largest number of plants and factories in our country’s history. The ‘leakers’ of these treasonous statements are being hunted down. Long term jail sentences will be sought!”