Trump Says He Won’t Fire Hegseth, Dismisses Impeachment Threat After Midterm Loss

The political stability signal here matters more than the election post-mortem: the defense secretary staying put and the president framing the Iran decision as one he would repeat suggest continuity in national-security posture rather than a course correction after a midterm rebuke. That continuity is what allies, adversaries and defense-sector watchers will price, since leadership churn at the Pentagon is often read as a proxy for policy drift. Whether the impeachment threat gains traction, and whether the Iran framing holds as the accepted explanation for the losses, are the open questions worth tracking.