United States President-elect Donald Trump is contemplating replacing his defence secretary pick, Pete Hegseth. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Trump is likely to replace Hegseth with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ahead of his second term in the White House.
Hegseth, former Fox News host and war veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, has been in trouble since the moment Trump chose him. He has been lately facing heat for his personal life with alleged misbehaviour against women.
DeSantis contested the Republican nomination against Trump. Before he withdrew his candidacy, he was referred to as Trump 2.0 because people perceived that he might advance the agenda of the populist President-elect. Neither DeSantis nor Trump’s team responded to comment on reports of him replacing Hegseth, CBS reported.
The news follows Hegseth’s meeting this week with members of Congress, who will have to approve his nomination, which was made in mid-November. What did Hegseth’s mother say? On November 30, the New York Times reported that Hegseth’s mother had been aware of his actions for a long time. In 2018, she wrote an email questioning his character.
