President Donald Trump's defiant attitude when he was asked about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's potential impeachment revealed a "trap" lurking beneath the entire gambit, according to one GOP analyst.
Trump was asked during a bizarre press conference with Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White whether he would stand by Hegseth during the impeachment push, which was kicked off Monday when Rep. Thomas Massie introduced eight articles against the secretary. The question seemed to trigger Trump, who lashed out at reporters after being asked.
"He's won two wars!" Trump raged.
Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, told CNN's Anderson Cooper that Trump's comments exposed a trap lying beneath Hegseth's impeachment.
"Hegseth deserves tobe fired. He deserves to beimpeached. I think he's probablythe worst Secretary of Defensein American history," Goldberg said. "But part of what he's doing, whether it's the judicial killings in the Caribbean and all the rest, is following through on what the president is ordering. And that's, I think, the trap of this: if you go through with this to impeach Hegseth, the actual argument is that you're impeaching him for doing what the president asked. And what the president asked is unconstitutional, unlawful, or impeachment-worthy."