Who is US Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth? Why is Mr. Trump defending to the end despite many accusations?

On December 6, US President-elect Donald Trump continued to support Mr. Pete Hegseth to be the head of the Pentagon despite much unfavorable information.

US Defense Secretary candidate Pete Hegseth. (Source: abcnews)

Mr. Pete Hegseth - a former military officer, Major of the Army National Guard Reserve, currently a host on the Fox News television channel (MC), was accused of sexual harassment and excessive drinking.

"Pete is doing a great job," Trump wrote on Truth Social in his first public comments on the matter since Hegseth began meetings to lobby for Senate support. Trump also called Hegseth a "WINNER," adding that "nothing can change that!!!"

Mr. Trump seems determined to consolidate Republican support for this 44-year-old veteran - the man he chose to lead an important Department with 3 million people, a budget of more than 800 billion USD and simultaneously handling two conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine.

Nominations for senior presidential positions require approval by a majority of the Senate.

According to NBC News , perhaps six Republican senators are opposing Mr. Hegseth — enough to derail Mr. Trump's nomination in the Senate, where Republicans hold a slim majority, 53 seats to 47 for Democrats.

Previously, US defense officials were also surprised when Mr. Trump chose MC Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon, because this candidate lacked experience in macro management.

“Who is this guy?” Republican Senator Bill Cassidy asked when he heard that Hegseth had been nominated for one of the most important positions in the upcoming Trump administration.

Meanwhile, the American public knows Hegseth mainly as a Fox News host, who regularly makes strong comments on military reform, calls for limiting women's participation in combat forces and recently called on Mr. Trump to fire General Charles Q. Brown, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.

According to political analysts, the position of US Secretary of Defense requires someone with extensive experience in civil management to be able to run a special agency with dozens of "big" generals with extensive battle experience.

According to Fox News, Mr. Hegseth has been contributing content to this station since 2014, graduated from Princeton University and has a master's degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Public Administration at Harvard University.

Mr. Trump said that the important factor in his appointment of Mr. Pete Hegseth as the US Secretary of Defense was the book The War on Soldiers: Betrayal of the Defenders of Freedom that the MC recently published. "The book exposes the left's betrayal of our soldiers and shows us what needs to be done to return our military to a state of combat readiness, accountability, and excellence," the President-elect emphasized.

Some foreign diplomats in the US rushed to order MC Hegseth’s book on the night of November 12, hoping to understand the thinking of Mr. Trump and the person who could become the new US Secretary of Defense. Many had never heard of Hegseth or knew about this MC’s right-wing views.

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