US President Donald Trump on Monday (November 9) told reporters he will stand by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth if he is impeached.

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WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 9, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IN THE BRIEFING ROOM

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3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

TRUMP: "Yeah I'll stand by".

REPORTER OFF-CAMERA: "So even if he's impeached, you're going to...."

TRUMP: "Yeah, I'll standby. He won two wars. He was in charge. We all won. We had great people."

REPORTER OFF-CAMERA: "(Thomas) Massie said that he's carried out illegal acts."

TRUMP: "Massie's a loser. Just like you're a loser at CNN. Just like your ratings are a loser. Massie is a loser. Stone cold loser. I ran....I did something that nobody's done. I took on a guy that was, in his own way, sort of popular in his state. And I beat him badly, beat him easily with a man that never ran before. But a good man. Massie has a lot of hatred in his heart. I watched...I heard what he didn't even want to watch. I didn't want to waste my time watching him. We won two wars. We won two wars, and we've made the world a safer place."

And I will say this. The soldiers, the actual soldiers, they are the great people that do the work.

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5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"And I will say this. The soldiers. The actual soldiers. The great people that do the work. The great patriots. They love, Pete Hegseth. So if you go back two years ago, before I got into office two years ago, we could not recruit people. And you know that better....The army was way behind everybody. Now we have waiting lists of people trying to get in. He's done a very good job."