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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

[thread] Pete Hegseth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Heg

* Fox News pol. commentator/author/U.S. Army Nat. Guard officer
* Nov 2024 Trump nom. as U.S. Secretary of Defense
* conservative Republican
* briefly at Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

[thread] John Phelan
mastodon.social/@persagen/1135



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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Trump to nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be defense secretary
npr.org/2024/11/12/g-s1-33970/

* past CEO, Concerned Veterans for America, veteran advocacy organization
* Fox News contributor 2014+
* 1 House Republican Committee chair shocked at nomination
* Hegseth was not on known list of names under consideration
* no sense of his background/vision


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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Trump's defence choice Pete Hegseth stuns Pentagon, raises questions about Fox News host's experience
apnews.com/article/trump-hegse

* Trump stuns Pentagon/broader defence world in Hegseth as Sec. Defense
* Hegseth inexperienced/untested on global stage to run world's largest/most powerful military
* opposed to "woke" programs that promote equity &
* questioned role of women included in combat


AP News · Trump picks Fox host Pete Hegseth for defense secretary and stuns PentagonBy LOLITA C. BALDOR
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Trump’s New Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth a Total Nightmare
newrepublic.com/post/188349/do

* no women in combat, just white men in military
* Islamophobia
* ramblings about “woke” military leadership
* complained about Muslim birth rates in states such as MI
* supporter, “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer
* criticized elite universities



The New Republic · Trump’s New Defense Secretary Is a Total NightmareHere are some of the most outrageous things Pete Hegseth has said.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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In 2019 Hegseth, laughed on air [comment: Fox News, I presume 🤔🤦‍♀️] about not washing his hands for 10 years, saying,

“Germs are not a real thing. I can’t see them, therefore, they are not real.”




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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Hegseth: Trump Defense Secretary Pick Hopes for Christian Crusade
motherjones.com/politics/2024/

* Hegseth assoc. w. TheoBros
* ultra-conservative men, Christian nationalists
* U.S. should be subject to Biblical law

Pete Hegseth: Faith/Family/Freedom/American Mind
nashchristian.com/2023/12/pete



Mother JonesTrump’s defense secretary pick hopes for a Christian crusadeFox News' Pete Hegseth travels in TheoBro circles.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

What's behind defense secretary pick Hegseth's war on 'woke'
npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-51919

* Sec. Defense not an entry-level position
* Hegseth/conservatives complain military cares more about diversity/equity than meritocracy/preparing for war
* against military's efforts to address domestic extremism, which he labeled a "purge"
* white nationalist tattoo on chest


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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth flagged by fellow service member as possible Insider Threat
apnews.com/article/trump-defen

* Hegseth flagged as poss. “Insider Threat” by service member
* tattoo associated w. white supremacist groups
* Hegseth: it’s a sham that extremism is a problem in military
* supported military members accused of war crimes
* criticized military’s justice system


Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth flagged by fellow service member as possible Insider Threat https://apnews.com/article/trump-defense-department-pentagon-hegseth-fox-news-8cd9f065e54a7cbbaceeec8bae9261a6 * Hegseth flagged as poss. “Insider Threat” by service member * tattoo associated w. white supremacist groups * Hegseth: it’s a sham that extremism is a problem in military * supported military members accused of war crimes * criticized military’s justice system #PeteHegseth #DefenseSec #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #Christofascism #antiLGBT #antiDEI Image source: https://kfor.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/11/6737cd00862cc4.31601735.jpeg?w=1440&h=2560&crop=1 Article: https://kfor.com/ap-politics/ap-trump-defense-pick-had-been-flagged-by-fellow-service-member-as-possible-insider-threat/
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Belittling, Abusing, Lying to Women
motherjones.com/politics/2024/

“Is there any sense of decency left in you?”

* Fox News anchor Hegseth: Trump2 nom. Sec. Defense
* intense scrutiny for mistreatment of women incl. allegation of rape
* one of his critics: his own mother, 2018




In 2018, Penelope Hegseth wrote her son an email in which she laid into him for poor behavior and disrespect toward women. “You are an abuser of women—that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego,” she wrote in the letter, obtained by the New York Times. Hegseth chastised her son for how he treated his wife, Samantha, in the divorce proceedings that prompted her to send her April 2018 email. She concluded it by writing, “On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say… get some help and take an honest look at yourself…”
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Pete Hegseth: Trump2 Sec. Defense Pick Keeps Getting Worse
newrepublic.com/post/188912/tr

Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
newyorker.com/news/news-desk/p
nonpaywalled archive.fo/nWn9p

* whistle-blower report/other docs
* Trump’s nominee to run Pentagon
* forced out of prev. leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, intoxicated on job



The New Republic · Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick Keeps Getting WorsePete Hegseth, who has already been accused of sexual assault, was forced out of leadership positions at veterans’ advocacy groups amid allegations of financial and sexual misconduct.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Pete Hegseth's mother begged him "get some help." He joined a misogynist church instead
salon.com/2024/12/03/pete-hegs

Fringe Christian nationalist Doug Wilson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_

* argues men "dream of being rapists" because women aren't submissive enough 🤔
* Association of Classical Christian Schools
* Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches
* far-right political troll



Salon.com · Pete Hegseth's church is built around shielding men from accountability
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Pete Hegseth Wants to Bring Back “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
newrepublic.com/post/189319/pe

* Christian nationalist
* Trump2 pick to lead DoD
* target: 2SLGBTQIA+ U.S. military

Don't ask, don't tell
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_
* U.S. policy on military service of non-heterosexual people
* barred military personnel f. discriminating against/harassing closeted homosexual or bisexual service members/applicants
* barred openly gay, lesbian, bisexual persons f. military service

The New Republic · Pete Hegseth Wants to Bring Back “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”The Christian nationalist who is Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense has had enough of LGBTQ people openly serving in the military.
#Trump2#PeteHegseth#antiLGBT
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Hegseth sworn in as Sec. Defense after dramatic U.S. Senate vote
apnews.com/article/pete-hegset

* every Senate Democrat voted against Hegseth’s confirmation + 3 Republicans deeply skeptical of his qualifications
* thanked JD Vance for tiebreaking vote
* Hegseth's espoused guiding principles:
“Restore the warrior ethos in everything that we do, rebuild our military & reestablish deterrence.”



Vice President JD Vance, from left, swears in Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense as his wife Jennifer Rauchet holds the Bible and Hegseth's son watches in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
AP News · Pete Hegseth quickly sworn in as defense secretaryBy THOMAS BEAUMONT
Jan 25, 2025, 06:58 PM·Public·Web
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Christian Nationalist at Pentagon: Pete Hegseth’s Calvinist Sect Embraces Confederacy, Crusades
democracynow.org/2025/1/27/pet

* U.S. Senate confirmed fmr Fox News host Pete Hegseth, Sec. Defense
* ties to extreme Christian nationalism
* hist. sexual assault/abuse
* ideology church possesses supremacy over worldly affairs
* mod-day iteration of medieval Crusades



Democracy Now! · Christian Nationalist at the Pentagon: Pete Hegseth’s Calvinist Sect Embraces Confederacy, CrusadesBy Democracy Now!
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@persagen

New US defense secretary sounds like a real "proper naughty boy".... and he is "white wing" as well

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