@newsworldpro: “WASHINGTON—Even before it was clear just how brutal the election results would be, the recriminations rolled across the nation’s capital—starting at the White House. Frustration rose from those gathered in the East Room with President Trump on Tuesday night as they watched his coalition collapsing and Democrats making sweeping gains in deep-red states. The first target of their ire: the drawn-out war in Iran, which drove up fuel prices and shattered Trump’s approval rating. Several White House officials and Republican lawmakers placed the blame on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who advocated for the war and assured the president it could be wrapped up quickly, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump and some of his top aides had already been expressing doubts about the defense chief, some of the people said. After the scale of the midterm defeat became clear, angry GOP lawmakers began discussing a new proposal, the people said: Get rid of Hegseth if you want anything to get done in the coming lame-duck session. The idea that Congress would demand anything from Trump—let alone the job of the country’s top military official as the U.S. is fighting a war in ” Excerpt From “After Two Years of Unchecked Power, Trump Faces a Tough New Reality” Annie Linskey, Eliza Collins, Josh Dawsey, Meridith McGraw The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/A762LzQS5SRCJ-MOi5nfzlw This material may be protected by copyright.

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