United States: American deputies nip impeachment proceedings against Peter Hegseth in the bud

American deputies voted Tuesday to send back to committee a resolution aimed at indicting Defense Minister Pete Hegseth before Congress, in effect torpedoing this procedure which could have resulted in his dismissal.

The resolution on this “impeachment” of Pete Hegseth will therefore not be put to a vote this week, as the Democrats and the Republican deputy who submitted it hoped. After their victory in the midterm elections, however, the Democrats could resurrect it in January, when they regain the majority in Congress.

The American Minister of Defense on Tuesday described as "political staging" the impeachment procedure initiated by a deputy against him for, among other things, his management of the war against Iran. “What a defeated and embittered MP is trying to do is not oversight or accountability. It is a political staging, a personal manifesto dictated by ego and resentment,” he declared to journalists. “It’s a farce and a media stunt.”