{"id":30333,"date":"2026-08-06T22:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=30333"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:37:22","slug":"trump-backs-hegseth-calls-reports-to-the-contrary-treasonous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=30333","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs Hegseth, calls reports to the contrary &quot;treasonous&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.axios.com\/0XewDuzUNqDe8LXBxOhppki9464=\/0x308:4367x2764\/1366x768\/2026\/08\/06\/1786035850232.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/politics-policy\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> on Thursday publicly defended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/08\/04\/hegseth-defense-funding-reconciliation\" target=\"_blank\">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a>, and said reporting suggesting any friction between the two was &#8220;treasonous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters: <\/strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/08\/05\/trump-hegseth-clashed-camp-david-over-iran-missile-depletion-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Pos<\/a>t and others reported this week that Trump had reached his limits with Hegseth over the state of the country&#8217;s weapons stockpile and the impact on the war with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/world\/iran\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This is a breaking news story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Thursday publicly defended Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and said reporting suggesting any friction between the two was &#8220;treasonous.&#8221; Why it matters: The Washington Post and others reported this week that Trump had reached his limits with Hegseth over the state of the country&#8217;s weapons stockpile and the impact on the war with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.axios.com\/0XewDuzUNqDe8LXBxOhppki9464=\/0x308:4367x2764\/1366x768\/2026\/08\/06\/1786035850232.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}