{"id":307,"date":"2026-01-02T19:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:31:37","slug":"pete-hegseth-says-trump-told-him-keep-fighting-amid-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth Says Trump Told Him \u2018Keep Fighting\u2019 Amid Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1808756\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Defense Department intimated during a hallway interview at the U.S.<\/p>\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<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<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<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<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1808755\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/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 of consideration despite &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}