{"id":26158,"date":"2026-01-03T02:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=26158"},"modified":"2026-01-03T02:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:45:58","slug":"pete-hegseth-says-trump-told-him-keep-fighting-amid-allegations-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=26158","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth Says Trump Told Him \u2018Keep Fighting\u2019 Amid Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Defense Department intimated during a hallway interview at the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Capitol on Wednesday that he\u2019s not going to drop out of consideration despite mounting allegations of sexual and personal misconduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth, an Army officer with documented combat experience, said that he spoke with Trump earlier in the day and that the president-elect encouraged him to \u201ckeep fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI spoke to the President-elect this morning. He said keep going, keep fighting\u2026 Why would I back down? I\u2019ve always been a fighter,\u201d he told a reporter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked directly if he was thinking of withdrawing his name amid the allegations, Hegseth said he was on Capitol Hill to meet with senators and that would continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Defense Department intimated during a hallway interview at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday that he\u2019s not going to drop out&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26159,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26158\/revisions\/26159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}