🔻Hagset calls efforts to impeach him over Iran war “ridiculous”

Pete Hagset, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, says that the attempt to impeach him in Congress over the Iran war is a “ridiculous” move that will fail.

Thomas Massi, a Republican member of Congress, submitted his impeachment motion yesterday to Congress, and Pete Hagset is speaking about it at a press conference.

Hagset said that no U.S. Secretary of Defense has ever been impeached for “lawful military operations.”

The resolution by Thomas Massi includes eight articles of accusation for impeaching Pete Hagset, including accusing him of violating the War Powers Resolution of 1973 in connection with the United States’ role in the war with Iran.