Washington, Nov. 10 -- President Donald Trump on Monday came out in defence of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth amid calls for his impeachment, arguing that Hegseth should not be targeted over recent military operations.

"Pete Hegseth won two wars. 'Oh, let's impeach him!' What about impeaching the people that ran the Vietnam War? What about impeaching that went-that ran Iraq, and Afghanistan, and all of these other wars where thousands of lives have been lost. We lost 18 people. 18. They lost 65,000 in Vietnam. We're in there for seven months, they're in there for 21 years," Trump told reporters.

Questioning the motives behind the impeachment resolution, the President added, "What about impeaching those people? What about impeaching the l...