The liberal media was roiling Monday morning over Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. 

NPR — that bastion of unbiased reporting (that's sarcasm) — ran a story claiming that the White House had begun the process of looking for a new Secretary of Defense. 

NPR - The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense. https://t.co/uQbed3nTqu
https://t.co/oN4TFKBE5S

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) April 21, 2025

The story was supposedly based on one "U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly." 

Anonymous source and a liberal media organ that may lose its federal funding. How much is that story worth?  

As we reported earlier, Hegseth got a big defense from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, declaring in a remarkable statement that there were people working in the Pentagon who were trying to undermine Hegseth. 

"Unfortunately, there have been people, in that building, who don’t like the change the Secretary is trying to bring, so they are leaking and lying to the mainstream media. We’ve seen this game played before, the Secretary is doing a tremendous job and the President stands strongly behind him.”

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The White House Rapid Response account specifically shot down that story from NPR, declaring it "WRONG" and "Fake News!" 

WRONG. Fake News! https://t.co/VEKtGdn9oK

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 21, 2025

Then, President Donald Trump himself put paid to questions about Hegseth with his own response during the Easter Egg Roll at the White House.