{"id":16093,"date":"2025-11-29T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-defends-strikes-after-wapo-kill-everybody-story-fake-news\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:21:10","slug":"hegseth-defends-strikes-after-wapo-kill-everybody-story-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-defends-strikes-after-wapo-kill-everybody-story-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth defends strikes after WaPo \u2018kill everybody\u2019 story: \u2018Fake news\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday defended the U.S. military&#8217;s recent strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in response to a recent report from The Washington Post. &ldquo;As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland,&rdquo; Hegseth said Friday evening in a&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5626054-defense-secretary-defends-drug-strikes\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday defended the U.S. military&#8217;s recent strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in response to a recent report from The Washington Post. &ldquo;As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland,&rdquo; Hegseth said Friday evening in a&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}