Vice President JD Vance is blaming the media for continuing its long-running crusade against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with the latest attacks on hosting Signal chats.

“I have 100% confidence in the secretary; I know the president does, and really, the entire team does,” Vance told reporters on the tarmac in Agra, India.

“It’s one of the most bizarre things about the Hegseth nomination: From the very beginning, the media seemed to want to tank it, and when they failed, and he got confirmed, they decided they wanted to keep on that effort to destroy Pete Hegseth as a man, as the Secretary of Defense.

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