Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was “the first” person in the Trump administration to push for war with Iran, the president claimed Monday.
Trump revealed during a public safety roundtable in Memphis, Tenn., that he had surveyed his top military brass about how he should handle the situation, and Hegseth quickly advocated military action to stop the theocratic regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
“I called a lot of our great people. We have great people, and I said, ‘Let’s talk. We got a problem in the Middle East. We have a country known as Iran that, for 47 years, has been just a purveyor of terror, and they’re close to a nuclear weapon,'” Trump recalled.
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