President Donald Trump brushed off Democrat threats to impeach two of his top cabinet officials when the rival party takes its majorities in the House and Senate in January.
Trump was asked Sunday night by Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan what he thought about Democrat vows to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The president responded by calling on Democrats “to get back to the country” instead of attacking Republicans.
“These are two very fine people. RFK Jr. was a Democrat,” Trump said. “And he’s had those views and the views on all of the things that he’s been doing, and he’s a very popular guy. A lot of people agree.”
Trump also praised Hegseth’s handling of the operation to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and the Iran war.
“So he wins two wars. We won in Venezuela. We’ve taken out hundreds of billions of dollars, we won in 48 minutes, and we won in Iran. We won that in Iran. It’s just a question of closing it out now or later, we may wait. Some of their neighbors would prefer that we just keep it the way it is, and, again, we haven’t lost anybody, no soldiers, been lost,” Trump said.
“So we’ve gone two wars, we’ve lost, and by the way, one is too many, but we’ve lost 18 soldiers in two wars. And the one war is seven months, the other one was 58, 48 hours and we made a fortune on Venezuela,” the president added.
He said that the Iran war “knocked out their nuclear capacity, and probably saved Israel and probably saved the Middle East. I believe we saved the Middle East and Israel combined.”
Trump also questioned why Lloyd Austin was not impeached after he spent two weeks in the hospital following treatment for prostate cancer. He was criticized because many top officials, including then-President Joe Biden, were unaware of Austin’s hospitalization for several days.
“Why didn’t they impeach Lloyd Austin when he was missing in action for two weeks, right? And presided over one of the worst things anyone’s ever seen,” Trump said referring to the terrorist attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate that left 13 U.S. service members and nearly two hundred civilians dead.
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