The media is running a vicious smear campaign against Pete Hegseth.
Journalists want to sink his nomination as Defense Secretary with a character assassination.
And a Fox & Friends star went to war with the media over this vicious attack on Pete Hegseth.
The media ramps up its attacks on Pete Hegseth
President-elect Donald Trump sent a message to the woke generals running the military with the nomination of Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense.
Hegseth, a veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq with the National Guard, is an outspoken critic of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda that’s overtaken the military.
The nomination came as a shock to Washington, D.C. insiders and the defense community because the Fox News star is an outsider.
Unlike the typical Secretary of Defense, he doesn’t have to worry about making waves with his leadership.
Hegseth isn’t looking for a cushy spot with a defense contractor after he gets out of government.
Former NAACP Legal Defense Fund President Sherrilyn Ifill falsely claimed on MSNBC that Hegseth was a “white supremacist,” which sent host Chris Hayes scrambling to issue a correction that the Fox News host would deny that statement.
Journalists are creating a hoax that a tattoo Hegseth has of a Jerusalem cross is a white supremacist symbol.
The media also went back to its typical playbook of using accusations of sexual assault to tank his nomination.
Hegseth is someone who’s coming in from outside the system to end the military’s DEI obsession and leave, which has the Left in a panic because they have no leverage over him.
Fox News star drops the hammer on the media for smear campaign
Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Will Cain worked with Hegseth on the morning show.
He called Hegseth a “real friend, not a TV friend” and warned there is an “army of lawyers” waiting to go after the media during an appearance on Patrick-Bet David’s podcast.
“This is an incredible, incredible man with the right values, a flawed man who has made mistakes in his life, but a good man who wants to live up to his values and dearly loves the United States of America,” Cain said.
Cain pointed out that the media has obsessed over a picture of Hegseth shirtless that displays his Jerusalem cross tattoo, but they ignore that it was taken as part of an annual swim with the Navy SEALs to honor veterans.
“This tattoo issue is nothing short of defamatory, and I’m waiting for the army of lawyers to start attacking the mainstream media for — look, I’m an attorney, I went to law school, for a public figure the standard is malice or reckless disregard for the truth,” Cain explained. “That is malice. That is malice.”
Cain noted that the Jerusalem cross is a symbol that dates back more than 1,000 years.
“That’s the Jerusalem cross. That is a cross that has been used since the Crusades, since 1096, it’s still used in Bibles,” Cain explained. “And I think he’s right, for them to attack that right there as white supremacist is nothing short of defamatory, not just towards Pete, but towards historical literacy, exposing yourself as an idiot.”
The media is trying to use the politics of personal destruction to sink Pete Hegseth’s nomination as Defense Secretary.
