Fake News of the Day (not surprising from Democrats & @JenGriffinFNC; same thing)
Any/all house repairs were going to happen no matter who was moving in—and were all initiated by DoD.
But Dems/Jen don’t care about facts; they’re just Trump haters. https://t.co/vpaUqwTkru
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) February 8, 2025
Pete Hegseth has hit out at a Fox News journalist who posted a letter sent to the defense secretary from Congress questioning a home repairs bill.
Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, 56, posted a letter sent to Hegseth from Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee, which asked the government official to explain why he required more than $130,000 for maintenance work on his government-furnished house.
Included in the bill was a $49,000 request for an ’emergency’ paint job.
Hours after the document was posted to X, Hegseth aggressively pushed back on the report saying it was ‘fake news,’ alongside the claim Griffin ‘hates Trump’.
Hegseth, 44, also claimed the behavior from Griffin was ‘not surprising,’ adding that she and Democrats are the ‘same thing.’
The US Secretary of Defense claimed all the repairs he requested for the government-furnished home were going to happen regardless of who moved in next.
‘Any/all house repairs were going to happen no matter who was moving in – and were all initiated by DoD,’ he wrote on X.
Hegseth added an additional jab at the reporter from his former network, claiming the Democrats and Griffin ‘don’t care about facts’ because ‘they’re just Trump haters.’