Thomas Massie, an outgoing Republican congressman from Kentucky, has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives calling for the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who led the US military campaign against Iran alongside Israel.
The move comes from Massie, who lost his seat in the midterm elections after President Trump endorsed his primary challenger following Massie's harsh criticism of the White House and his alignment with the isolationist and anti-Israel far right.
Massie is attempting to use the lame-duck period between the midterm elections and the swearing-in of the new Congress in early January, hoping to rally a significant number of defeated Republican members who want to exact a political price from the White House.
In recent years, Massie has joined the isolationist right, parts of which are antisemitic. He has accused Israel of controlling American politics, claimed that Jeffrey Epstein worked for the Mossad, and described the war in Gaza as genocide, among numerous other accusations.
