Industry Peers Rally Around Fox’s Jen Griffin After Pete Hegseth Attack: ‘Shi**y Way to Treat a Former Colleague’
Journalists representing left-leaning, right-leaning, and nonpartisan outlets quickly rallied to the defense of Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attacked her during a news conference on Thursday.
Hegseth lashed out at the Fox News correspondent for questioning whether Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was destroyed in Saturday’s strike on Iran as President Donald Trump has claimed.
“Do you have certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was inside the Fordow Mountain, or some of it?” Griffin asked. “Because there were satellite photos that showed more than a dozen trucks there two days in advance. Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved?”
“Of course, we’re watching every single aspect,” Hegseth said. “But Jennifer, you’ve been about the worst, the one who misrepresents the most intentionally what the president says.”
Griffin’s Fox News colleague, Brit Hume, went on the air shortly after the news conference to defend her work.
“[It was] an attack she certainly, in my view, did not deserve,” Hume said. “Her professionalism, her knowledge, and her experience at the Pentagon is unmatched. And I have then, have had and still have, the greatest regard for her. The attack on her was unfair.”
Hume’s sentiments were echoed across the industry — in a flurry of posts on X:
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