Sec. Hegseth: Someone Had to Confront Iran, and History Will Judge Trump ‘Very Kindly’

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HEGSETH: "It doesn't have to be necessarily popular, but it can be necessary. And that's, I think, where I land on that. Someone had to confront the Iranian regime's pursuit of a nuclear weapon. And for 47 years, no president was willing to do it. And then President Trump said -- stood up and said, 'Not on my watch.' And it's going to be difficult, because they're building a conventional missile shield the world -- the likes of which the world hasn't seen. They were pursuing the North Korea strategy to build up so many capabilities that you can't stop us from getting a nuclear weapon. And as the president points out so clearly, you can't let crazy Islamists have a nuclear bomb. And so the choice was, don't act and wish it away, or take a bold move, which the president did with Midnight Hammer. He's done with that with Epic Fury. And I think it was the right step. History will judge him very kindly in the military delivery."