Pentagon rejects claim of Pete Hegseth’s alleged deal with investment firm, seeks retraction

The US Department of War on Monday (local time) strongly denied allegations that US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth or his representatives approached investment giant BlackRock regarding any potential deal, calling the claims “entirely false and fabricated.”

In a post on X, Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell dismissed the reports as a “baseless, dishonest smear designed to mislead the public,” and demanded an “immediate retraction”.