The real Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense
03/04/25
The real Pete Hegseth
The Secretary of Defense is responsible for overseeing the world's largest bureaucracy, the Department of Defense, with over 2.6 million employees and a budget of over $840 billion.
Trump picked MAGA cult member Pete Hegseth for the job. Hegseth is unqualified. Even Trump's most loyal supporters acknowledge Hegseth's lack of relevant experience. Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist during his first term, said that Hegseth has "never run a big organization" and is "kind of a madman."
Here are a few important facts you should know about Pete Hegseth:
- Hegseth says women should not be in combat roles.
- Hegseth paid a woman who accused him of rape to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement.
- Hegseth published a column in college that claimed having sex with an unconscious woman is not rape.
- Hegseth is a serial philanderer, making him a target for blackmail.
- Hegseth criticized injured veterans who receive government assistance.
- Hegseth praised “waterboarding," blasted the Geneva Conventions.
- Hegseth dismissed moral concerns about the use of nuclear weapons.
- Hegseth pushed Trump to pardon service members convicted of war crimes.
- Hegseth said the United Nations should be shut down.
- Hegseth has a tattoo associated with white nationalists.
- Hegseth is a member of a Christian supremacist church.
- Hegseth said rising Muslim birth rates were causing "a slow motion 9/11."
- Hegseth promoted editorial comparing same-sex marriage to bestiality.