Pete Hegseth · Full chronicle and history

According to @clashreport, Pete Hegseth's advisory team plans to delay the release of a Pentagon investigation report on the US airstrike on Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in the city of Minab in southern Iran until after the midterm elections. The airstrike occurred on the first day of the war and killed more than 150 people.

According to clashreport, on October 14, 2026 Beijing time, Pete Hegseth was interrupted four times by protesters within five minutes during a Department of Defense event. The protesters chanted that children in Gaza are starving and accused him of being a war criminal.

Trump posted on Truth Social that U.S.-South Korea exercises are costly and signal hostility, demanding that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth significantly reduce the scale of the exercises.