Hegseth's 'number is up' as influential GOP senator 'has seen enough': Politico reporter

Despite the current support of Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s days could be numbered at the Pentagon because Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), chair of the powerful Senate Armed Forces Committee, has been looking for a way to oust him.

According to Politico’s Jonathan Martin, Wicker has been looking askance at Hegseth dating back to the so-called “Signalgate” scandal and before.

Appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Martin told the co-hosts, “I think about Wicker a lot. You know, Joe [Scarborough], he came in ‘94 with you to the House. He's not going to be on a ballot ever again. He's not running for reelection in 2030. This is his last term. Everybody in Mississippi, in Washington who follows politics knows that he feels very strongly about the Ukraine issue, deeply, deeply passionate about it.”

“And I think he also is offended at a moral level about somebody like Pete Hegseth leading the biggest and best military in the world,” he pointed out before noting, “I know [that] for a fact, Joe, and here's why. I interviewed him in Munich in February of this year when, in his first foreign trip, Pete Hegseth made 17 gaffes in three days across Europe, and Wicker told me it was a rookie mistake.”

“But when he said rookie mistake, his eyes said something else. His eyes said, 'holy F-, could you believe what this guy just did?'” he recalled. “So I think Wicker has seen enough. I'm not sure how far he'll go.”

He later added, “Everybody with Trump is only entitled to so much sand in the hourglass. And eventually Hegseth’s number is going to be up. Because if you get too much bad coverage, that is that with Trump.”

“And I think that's the risk for Hegseth. It's not his conduct, it's not his morality, it's the bad coverage. And I think once Trump gets tired of the bad coverage with Hegseth, Pete's going to have to go,” he predicted.

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