US President Donald Trump has opposed plans by Democrats to initiate impeachment proceedings against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., APA reports.
Trump made the remarks while speaking to reporters before departing Florida for Washington.
The US president urged Democrats to focus on the country's domestic problems.
“They should get back to the problems of the country. These are two great people,” Trump said.
Defending Hegseth's performance, Trump claimed that the United States had achieved victories in two military operations under his leadership.
“We won in Venezuela. We took hundreds of billions of dollars out of there. We won in 48 minutes. We won in Iran, too,” he said.
According to Trump, the accusations against Hegseth are unfounded.
“When you talk about Pete Hegseth, I think he's guilty of two things: actually winning two wars. In the second war, we destroyed Iran's nuclear capability and probably saved Israel, as well as the entire Middle East,” the US president emphasized.
Trump also questioned why Democrats had not pursued impeachment proceedings against former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
He recalled that Austin was among the officials in former President Joe Biden's administration who oversaw the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
It should be noted that Democrats, who won the congressional elections, are expected to take control of the legislature early next year.
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