Trump says Pete Hesgeth is "doing a very good job"

According to a letter to the editor, President Donald Trump has expressed support for Pete Hesgeth, even as the writer asks whether Trump will eventually fault him. The letter says Trump also suggested Hesgeth was the one who proposed beginning the war in Iran, and it attributes to Vice President JD Vance a social-media post saying that conflict was the principal cause of the Republicans’ decisive midterm losses. It further says Trump has blamed Fox News for bad polling. The letter presents these points while describing Republican divisions over the Iran war and the assigning of political blame; the assertions are the letter writer’s account and are not independently confirmed in the source.