Trump Allies Predict Pete Hegseth Will "Implode" Soon

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is weathering calls for his resignation thanks to the support of President Trump.
46% : " According to Politico, Trump and Hegseth met privately on Sunday, where the president reportedly offered his support to the DOD chief, as he has done publicly.
45% : But NPR also reported Monday that Trump has begun the search for a new secretary of defense, following this weekend's report that Hegseth shared details about U.S. airstrikes in Yemen in a private Signal chat last month that included his wife and brother while also sharing the war plans in another group chat containing The Atlantic's editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.
35% : "Trump goes to bat for people until the moment he flips on them," said one of Politico's sources.
34% : One of them said that Hegseth may "implode on his own," while the other said that Trump could get tired of the distractions from the former Fox News host's tenure at the Department of Defense.
32% : You know, he was put there to get rid of a lot of bad people, and that's what he's doing, so you don't always have friends when you do that," Trump told reporters.
32% : It also suggests that Trump would be willing to deal with another confirmation battle in the Senate.
23% : If NPR's report is true, it suggests that Trump is so frustrated that he doesn't care if Hegseth's firing validates his administration's critics.
13% : At the White House's Easter Egg Roll Monday, Trump criticized Hegseth's detractors.

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