Ben Shapiro: “The White House should stand by Hegseth. He was their pick. He was an out of the box pick, and he remains the right pick for secretary of defense.”
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From the April 22, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): According to The New York Times, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details about information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother, and personal lawyer according to four people with knowledge of the chat.
And so now this is being used as another excuse to go after Pete Hegseth. Rumors started flying around yesterday that the Trump administration was gonna look to alternatives for Hegseth. For the White House's part, they're denying that. Karoline Leavitt at the White House yesterday said this is not true. The Pentagon is working against Pete Hegseth specifically because, by the way, recruitment numbers are up because Pete Hegseth is cutting the waste and the fraud and the abuse over at the Pentagon because Pete Hegseth is a different kind of SecDef.
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SHAPIRO: The fact that the White House is standing by Hegseth — that is, of course, the right move. Pete Hegseth yesterday was talking about his relationship with the White House. He says, listen. We're trying to fire leakers. That's what we are doing here.
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SHAPIRO: So the White House should stand by Hegseth. He was their pick. He was an out-of-the-box pick, and he remains the right pick for secretary of defense.