Color Us Shocked: NBC News Caught Lying About Secretary Hegseth's Comments to Families of Fallen Troops

It's incredible how the mainstream media can investigate something when
they have an axe to grind or an agenda to push. Earlier, we told you NBC
News dug up some European "experts" who said the U.S. and Israel aren't
winning in Iran, despite obliterating their leadership, navy, air force,
and missile and drone supplies. 

NBC News also dug into comments made by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
about what the families of fallen soldiers told him about Operation Epic
Fury. 

Amanda Terkel
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EXCLUSIVE - Hegseth said today that “family after family” of the service
sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done.” 

But a father who met with Hegseth tells @Petereporter he never said that
4:31 PM · Mar 19, 2026

This is such a bunch of semantic bull, even for NBC News.


NBC News
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tell Pete Hegseth to "finish" the job.
https://nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/father-servicemember-killed-ira
n-war-never-told-hegseth-finish-the-job-rcna264297?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&ta
id=69bc9141363d3f000106898e&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm
_source=twitter 

Here's more (emphasis added):

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met privately Wednesday with the families
of six service members who died in the Iran war and, in a press briefing
the next morning, said the message he got was consistent and supportive. 

“What I heard through tears, through hugs, through strength and through
unbreakable resolve was the same from family after family. They said,
‘Finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the
job is done,’” Hegseth said. 

One of the people he met at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware was Charles
Simmons. His 28-year-old son, Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, was among the
six crew members killed when their refueling plane crashed in Iraq last
week. 

Simmons recalled his exchange differently.

“I can’t speak for the other families. When he spoke to me, that was not
something we talked about,” he told NBC News in an interview Thursday. 

Simmons said he spoke separately to Hegseth and President Donald Trump
at Dover and was grateful for the warmth that both men showed him. 

And here's the kicker buried at the end of the article:

Simmons recalled something his son had told him before volunteering for
the mission that ended his life. 

“He said, ‘Dad, I can’t give you any details, but if civilians knew what
we knew, a lot of the criticism [of the war] would cease,” he said. 

Secretary Hegseth never said "all families," he said, "family after
family." But NBC News found the one guy who met with Secretary Hegseth
separately and decided to use that as proof that Hegseth is lying about
what the other families said. NBC News could have asked the other
families, too, but we noticed they didn't. 

We do not despise the media enough.


Jim Verdi
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Replying to @NBCNews
Are you people incapable of telling the truth or is that just your
business model?
https://x.com/JamesLaverty45/status/2034938124200034761?s=20 

They can't help themselves.


Mass Hypnosis
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Replying to @NBCNews and @sabback
Did he name this family specifically? Did Pete Hegseth claim every
single family? Imagine parading this around as “Exclusive”. This is why
your ratings are trash. 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HD0UmfhboAA1VCL?format=jpg&name=small

They deserve to have trash ratings.


LadyL
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Replying to @NBCNews
The media is beyond despicable. The full quote of this father paints a
very different picture from your post. You can't hate the media enough. 
https://x.com/i/status/2034938124200034761

NBC News knows that few people will read beyond the first paragraph, and
even fewer will read the headline. And if you check out some of the
quotes of that post, they got exactly the sort of reaction they wanted:
the Leftists accusing Secretary Hegseth of lying. 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/03/20/nbc-news-hegseth-fini
sh-the-job-remarks-n2673167