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Narrator: “And that’s when Pete realized this is how it’s going to be for the rest of his life…”

🚨NEW: New York Times: Pete Hegseth has blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior military officers across all four branches. Nine US officials confirm it. Some were targeted specifically because of their race or gender. Others because of perceived ties to Biden administration officials.

Jeffries on Kash Patel: "We have to stop putting all the blame on the people who nominated this incompetent, toxic, malignant individual. What about the people who confirmed him? It's extraordinary to me that Senate Republican confirmed people like Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, RFK Jr, and Patel."

Rep. Bill Keating on Hegseth's justification for the military's extrajudicial killings: "I found no justification. We were given classified information on the second strike. I can't discuss it, but I must tell you, it is the most convoluted bullshit I have ever heard in my life."

With Noem gone, Hegseth has opened up an impressive lead in the most embarrassing member of the Cabinet race.

Hey DOJ, when a strip club 86s you, they don’t kill you. They kick you out. Ask Pete Hegseth.

BREAKING: Survivors of the missile attack that killed 6 Americans say Hegseth is LYING – it wasn’t a lucky shot, they were completely unprepared to defend themselves thanks to Trump’s incompetence! CBS News is reporting that the survivors of an attack on a US base in Kuwait that killed 6 Americans and wounded 20 more are disputing Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth’s version of the events, who said the missile was a “squirter” that managed to sneak through their defenses. The reality, they said, is that they were completely unprepared to defend themselves. "Painting a picture that 'one squeaked through' is a falsehood," one of the injured soldiers told CBS News. "I want people to know the unit … was unprepared to provide any defense for itself. It was not a fortified position." In a post on Twitter, Secretary of Defense Sean Parnell claimed that "every possible measure has been taken to safeguard our troops — at every level" and that "[t]he secure facility was fortified with 6-foot walls." The survivors, however, said that "We moved closer to Iran, to a deeply unsafe area that was a known target. I don't think there was a good reason ever articulated." CBS reports that the soldier “said they were protected by little more than a thin layer of vertical standing blast barricades that did not provide cover from above. ‘From a bunker standpoint, that's about as weak as one gets.’Asked to describe the degree of fortification, he responded: ‘I mean, I would put it in the none category. From a drone defense capability … none.’” It is well-documented at this point that Trump and Hegseth plunged headfirst into this war with very little preparation, drastically underestimating Iran’s ability to respond to their unprovoked and illegal attacks and putting thousands of Americans in harm's way because of it. Now six Americans are dead because of Trump and Hegseth’s arrogance and incompetence – and they’re lying to us about it. Pete Hegseth needs to be removed from office IMMEDIATELY.

Pete Hegseth is before Congress today for the first time since Trump launched this dangerous war in Iran. Hegseth can recite talking points for Fox News, but I've sat in classified briefings with him. He is in over his head. Our servicemembers deserve better. He needs to go.

Hegseth did not know how much the Iran war is costing Americans in higher gas prices and food prices. He called it a gotcha question. Really? Not yelling if you watch the clip, but frustrated by the incompetence.

WOW! Pete Hegseth just LIED under oath. Congresswoman @jilltokuda: “Who would you follow? The president or the Constitution?” Pete Hegseth: "I will note, that in 2024 troops were — that was Joe Biden by the way — were deployed to polling locations in the United States. 2024, Joe Biden, troops were deployed to polling locations in 15 states. Explain that one to me.” This is a lie. No troops were deployed to polling locations in the United States under Joe Biden. @grok fact check me.

@danielledsouzag @JennyHegseth Ok, I'll give you (from a lefty), the gown is pretty...BUT she doesn't have the figure to wear a form fitting dress. And this is coming from A WOMAN.

Pete Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer Hegseth, is now being attacked by the Left for wearing this $42 gown to the 2026 WHCD, per the NY Post. @JennyHegseth looks beautiful in this dress. The next time the Left claims to represent the “working class,” remember this.

HEGSETH: It's very difficult to change the culture of a department that has been destroyed by the wrong perspectives HOULAHAN: So you think General George destroyed a culture? HEGSETH: We need new leadership HOULAHAN: You have no way of explaining why you fired him

Scoop: Kid Rock flew to Fort Belvoir this morning on his private jet and took a little joy ride on 2 Apache helicopters with War Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to multiple Army sources, and backed up by flight data. Apaches typically have 2 pilots, but they went up with one so the boys could each ride shotgun, I'm told. Apache helicopters are not stationed at Ft. Belvoir so unclear where they came from. A spokesperson at the base referred questions to the secretary's office.

BREAKING: Here is what some active-duty Marines are calling Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon — and it doesn’t make him look good. Pete Hegseth wanted to be called the "Secretary of War," instead of Secretary of Defense. Now, his own troops have a different title in mind. Rep. Seth Moulton — a Marine combat veteran who actually served in Iraq, unlike the Fox News host currently running the Pentagon — dropped a bombshell this week that should stop every American cold: "I know active-duty Marines who now refer to Pete Hegseth's department as the Department of War Crimes." These aren’t former officials, nor political opponents. These are active-duty Marines, the people Hegseth commands. These are the people who have watched him operate up close. They are calling their own department the Department of War Crimes — and according to Moulton, they're doing it because of what they've been ordered to do. The nickname is a savage mashup of Hegseth's own self-aggrandizing rebrand of the Department of Defense as the "Department of War" — because nothing says serious military leadership like cosplay branding — and the growing mountain of evidence that his tenure has been defined by actions that legal experts are calling war crimes. The list is staggering: Airstrikes in Yemen that allegedly hit residential buildings, killing at least 224 civilians. Strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities of questionable legality under both domestic and international law. An alleged no-survivors attack order issued against vessels in the Caribbean. A lightning invasion of Venezuela launched without congressional authorization. And now Trump's announced intention to target Iranian civilian energy infrastructure — the same playbook, Moulton noted pointedly, that the United States spent years condemning Vladimir Putin for using in Ukraine. "It's meant to hurt civilians," Moulton said. "This is the same stuff we criticized Vladimir Putin for doing in Ukraine." Over a thousand civilians have been killed in the Iran war. More than a hundred of them were children, killed when a missile — believed to be American — struck a school. Hegseth's spokesperson responded to questions about war crimes by quoting the man himself: "They target civilians. We do not, and I can tell you this administration and this Pentagon focuses on that very, very closely." A school full of children would beg to differ. If they could. And "Department of War Crimes" isn't even the only nickname Hegseth has earned in the building. Pentagon staffers have also taken to calling him "Dumb McNamara" — a reference to Vietnam-era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who sent tens of thousands of Americans to die in a war he privately knew was unwinnable. The comparison is not a compliment. McNamara, for all his catastrophic failures, was at least regarded as intellectually serious. Hegseth, the Fox & Friends Weekend host who needed a Vice Presidential tiebreaker to get confirmed, is regarded as having McNamara's appetite for escalation without the analytical credentials. Same body count. Fewer brain cells. This is the man running America's military. This is the man who has fired over a dozen decorated generals and replaced them with loyalists and personal aides. This is the man whose troops — the ones actually carrying out his orders — have given his department a name that should haunt every single person who confirmed him. Please like and share this post if you believe "Department of War Crimes" should never be how America's military is described accurately — and certainly not by its own Marines.

Hegseth fired our Generals. And now is bringing Kid Rock to the Pentagon address our military??? These people are deeply unserious.

NEW POLL: 75% of Americans say Pete Hegseth should be removed from office. Are you one of them? Yes. No.

Why is Pete Hegseth spending your taxpayer dollars to give Kid Rock “joy rides” on Apache helicopters?

PETE HEGSETH: “We took out Iran’s nuclear capabilities last year. This war wasn’t started because they were close to getting nuclear weapons, it started because they still had nuclear ambitions.” Hegseth accidentally tells congress that Iran posed no imminent threat to America.

Two months ago today, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth launched a war in Iran. We're billions of dollars poorer, gas is over $4, and hundreds of Americans and thousands of Iranians are wounded or dead. Everyone who voted for this should lose their seat, starting with Susan Collins.

Congressman @sethmoulton just made Pete Hegseth look like the moron he is: Congressman Mouton: “Mr. Hegseth, do you call Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz ‘winning?’” Pete Hegesth: “I would say the blockade that we hold that doesn’t allow anything to come in or out of Iranian ports..." Mouton: “OK, so we’ve blockaded their blockade. That’s like saying ‘tag you're it,’ or if President Madison had said ‘the British have burned down Washington but don’t worry, we are going to burn it down as well.'”