Tuesday morning on the identical program, Kilmeade mentioned “personal attacks” on Hegseth—with out referencing any of the reported particulars.
“I think the volume of some of the personal attacks on some of your nominees is stunning, including our buddy Pete Hegseth, who wrote a book about the Pentagon and served 20 years in the military,” he mentioned throughout a dialogue with Trump spokesperson Jason Miller.
In the meantime, the right-wing Newsmax community has taken a special method by daring to debate the Hegseth tales.
On Monday, Newsmax host Greg Kelly instructed his viewers that the nomination might be doomed.
“Pete Hegseth is a talented guy with a lot to offer. But this secretary of defense thing is not going to happen,” Kelly mentioned. “It just can’t, not after what we’re learning about.”
Noting the damning content material of the letter from Hegseth’s mom, Kelly famous, “Country needs some time to absorb this. Pete can make a contribution, a big one, unlimited, quite frankly, but not right now.”
Kelly additionally mentioned that he thought Hegseth ought to have warned Trump about his dicey previous earlier than he introduced the nomination.
Newsmax is a die-hard pro-Trump outlet. The community unfold lies concerning the 2020 election being stolen by President Joe Biden as a part of an effort to bolster Trump. Newsmax was sued by voting providers firm Smartmatic and later settled the lawsuit (as did Fox Information, for its personal election lies).
However even Newsmax just isn’t going as little as Fox, which is working in service of its ex-employee by avoiding disagreeable details about Hegseth.
Damaging details about nominees has already blown again on Trump earlier than he’s even sworn in for an additional time period. Tales a few intercourse trafficking investigation and allegations about intercourse with minors led to Matt Gaetz withdrawing his nomination for legal professional common earlier than the Senate even thought of it.
Regardless of the data revealed to date about Hegseth, Senate Republicans look like prepared to approve his nomination. In an look on Fox Enterprise, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville mentioned “a lot of this stuff was years ago” and made imprecise assertions that Hegseth’s affirmation hearings shouldn’t be about “his past references.”
