{"id":163115,"date":"2024-11-13T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=163115"},"modified":"2024-11-12T20:36:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T01:36:11","slug":"pete-hegseth-tapped-for-secdef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=163115","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth tapped for SecDef"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pete Hegseth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Trump’s wasting no time in very publicly building his cabinet. The latest addition was announced last night, and is kind of a surprise to say the least. Trump’s tapped Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be the next Secretary of Defense<\/a>. Hegseth’s been a long time supporter of the Trump agenda, and it seems that Trump is picking “loyalists” (as the media has been calling them) for his cabinet this time around. He’s definitely picking people from outside the swamp this time, which I think most in the MAGA movement will agree is a good thing.<\/p>\n

Hegseth’s military bona fides started with his commissioning as an infantry officer in the Minnesota National Guard after he graduated Princeton in 2003. He served a deployment to Gitmo, then deployed to Iraq, and then Afghanistan. According to Wikipedia, he’s still in the IRR as a major. He received the CIB, two BSMs, and a couple of ARCOMs for his service.<\/p>\n

While I was on Wikipedia for Mr. Hegseth, I took a gander at the left-wing site’s list of “Controversies” of his. Among those listed are;<\/p>\n

In July 2019, Hegseth said that one of the Muslim members of Congress, Rashida Tlaib, had a “Hamas agenda”.<\/p>\n

In August 2019, he lamented that “young kids voting” are worried about the adverse effects of climate change. Hegseth also criticized universities for teaching students about “environmentalism and radical environmentalism” rather than a “real threat” such as Islamic extremism.<\/p>\n

In January 2020, Hegseth expressed strong support for President Trump’s decision to kill Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. He also called on Trump to bomb the Iranian homeland, including cultural sites if they were storing weapons.<\/p>\n

In February 2020, amid the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Hegseth said that Democrats were “rooting for coronavirus to spread. They’re rooting for it to grow. They’re rooting for the problem to get worse.” Hegseth suggested the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was made up by Democrats to help them in the 2022 midterm elections, saying “Count on a variant about every October, every two years.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tlaib has since absolutely proven without a doubt that she has a Hamas agenda. Young kids are voting as if the climate change hysterics haven’t been wrong in every single prediction for the last 50+ years. Killing Soleimani was a great decision, and if Iran hides weapons in cultural sites, then they are legitimate military targets (obviously). He was wrong about there being a new COVID variant every two years, but Democrats were absolutely rooting for COVID to get rid of Trump in 2020.<\/p>\n

If I’m judging Hegseth only by what his detractors editing Wikipedia have to say about him, then I can see why Trump thinks he’ll make a great SecDef!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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