Pete Hegseth is a good choice to be Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense for several reasons. more on that in a moment. Hegseth’s nomination was plagued by accusations early on, but he did is slowly gaining ground in the likely vote count regardless.
On November 12, a week after the election, Trump named Hegseth as his nominee for defense secretary. Days later, Hegseth came under fire for allegations of past sexual misconduct. An unknown woman accused Hegseth for sexual assault in a hotel room in Monterey, California, in 2017.
Hegseth claimed the sexual encounter was consensual and prosecutors declined to press charges. Hegseth and the accuser agreed to a confidential financial settlement in 2023.
His nomination was controversial and faced some hurdles; The Washington mill has spewed out an intriguing novel rumor that novel Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has assured President-elect Trump that Pete Hegseth will get the votes for his nomination to be confirmed in the Senate, according to CBS must News report linked above:
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has privately told President-elect Donald Trump that he believes Pete Hegseth He will have the votes needed to be confirmed as defense secretary, according to three sources.
When asked for comment, a spokesman for Thune told CBS News only: “Two things we don’t discuss publicly: whip counts and private conversations with the president.”
The novel Senate majority leader in one Face the Nation interview with Margaret Brennan“ promised a fair trial but expressed more caution.
“I think these are candidates who are fairly novel. They’ve been going around and having their meetings, which I think went very well, to be truthful, but they have yet to make their case to the committee. And you.” You know, we don’t know all the information about some of these nominees.
If this is true – it is impossible to say with certainty – then the Defense Department will have a novel boss, and one who is better than the aged boss.
Here’s the thing: Pete Hegseth might be just the medicine our beleaguered armed forces need now that the whole Senate confirmation fight is over.
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Why? Because he is I’ve been there, done that and have the t-shirt. When Donald Trump began naming his proposed cabinet members after his election victory and referred to Hegseth as SecDef, the usual suspects in the legacy media and the left (but I repeat myself) started screaming that Trump was a “Fox News host.” I selected the Ministry of Defense as a candidate, but that’s nonsense. Oh yes, Pete Hegseth worked for Fox News; But he was also a US Army officer, a combat leader with deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. He’s smelled the smoke, he’s seen hazardous times in strange places, and he has a pretty good idea of ​​what needs to be done to make our armed forces a fighting force again.
Today’s news could well be a product of the Washington rumor mill. We can hope that this is not the case. There is still much work to be done to fix Washington. All of Trump’s Cabinet members will have to take great initiative to get their own houses in order, and they can only count on two years to get much done.
This nomination should be accepted. Let’s hope it is.
