Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department has threatened to revoke press credentials of news organization that do not agree to restrictive new coverage rules — and says it may bar journalists who don’t agree to abide by the rules from physical access to the Pentagon’s grounds.

In 2019, Pete Hegseth used his pulpit on Fox News to rail against the “injustice” of a Navy Seal “warrior” being charged for stabbing a 17-year-old Islamic State prisoner in the neck.

A reporter for the Epoch Times has resigned after the right-wing outlet agreed to new rules requiring permission to publish stories reported from inside the Pentagon. Before he submitted his written resignation Friday,

"I've thought of just ordering lots of pizza on random nights just to throw everybody off," Hegseth said on Sunday.