{"id":125796,"date":"2024-11-14T16:33:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T09:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125796"},"modified":"2024-11-14T16:33:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T09:33:37","slug":"pete-hegseths-defense-secretary-nomination-confuses-some-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125796","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth&#8217;s Defense Secretary Nomination Confuses Some Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDonald Trump\u2019s second-term Cabinet was always going to be weird. But his selection of <em>Fox &amp; Friends<\/em> host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pete-hegseth\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pete-hegseth\" data-tag=\"pete-hegseth\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> for Secretary of Defense sent shockwaves through Washington, D.C. \u2014 even among Republicans and Hegseth\u2019s cable-TV colleagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tShortly after the news broke on Tuesday night, two Republican senators messaged <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> their dismay over Trump\u2019s announcement, with each doubting Hegseth\u2019s confirmability and basic qualifications for the high-stakes job. \u201cThat makes no sense!\u201d one of them said. Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski couldn\u2019t help but say, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AndrewDesiderio\/status\/1856493932521115689\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wow<\/a>,\u201d when quizzed about Trump\u2019s latest selection to fill the highest ranks of his new administration, with Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)\u00a0replying, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/pete-hegseth-defense-surprise-rcna179911\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWho?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIt wasn\u2019t just Republican senators who were stunned by the news. \u201cWHAT. THE. REAL. FUCK,\u201d a former Fox News colleague of Hegseth\u2019s exclaimed to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHegseth is a decorated Army National Guard veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, he has little management experience that would qualify him to run a massive government bureaucracy. He previously led a small veterans group and a PAC that were accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apmreports.org\/story\/2018\/03\/27\/pete-hegseth-potential-cabinet-appointment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cronyism and misspending<\/a>. He has no government experience, and has been working for Fox since 2014. Trump touted Hegseth\u2019s book spending time on <em>The New York Times<\/em> bestseller list when he announced the nomination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHegseth\u2019s most important qualification might simply be that Trump likes him. The president-elect considered him to lead the Veterans Administration in his first term. Instead, Hegseth emerged as an informal adviser to the first Trump White House. Notably: Hegseth was a top player in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/fox-and-friends-host-pete-hegseth-privately-lobbied-trump-to-pardon-accused-war-criminals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">privately lobbying<\/a> Trump to grant executive clemency to accused American war criminals \u2014 an action that would later spark chaos and dissent <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2019\/11\/24\/politics\/pentagon-mark-esper-richard-spencer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">within the<\/a> senior ranks of the military and the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAlso alarming: Hegseth is uncomfortably close to extremist movements. By his own accounting, Hegseth was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/soundmigration\/status\/1856589020257550518\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deemed an extremist<\/a>\u201d and removed from a National Guard regiment tasked with protecting Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration, because of troubling tattoos. Hegseth claims the problematic ink in question is the giant Jerusalem cross tattooed on his pec, which he\u2019s said is \u201cjust a Christian symbol.\u201d But extremism analysts have also pointed to a bicep tat reading \u201cDeus Vult\u201d \u2014 or \u201cGod wills it\u201d \u2014 a battle cry of the medieval crusaders that has recently been appropriated by white nationalists. (The crusaders also used the Jerusalem cross, specifically, in their heraldry.)<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHegseth has also called on Fox News viewers to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mmfa\/status\/1856507761992913219\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">look sympathetically<\/a> on the motivations of white nationalists who marched in Charlottesville in 2017 \u2014 insisting \u201cthere\u2019s a reason those people were out there.\u201d (Hegseth condemned their \u201coutright racism,\u201d but said it was reasonable they felt their country was \u201cslipping away.\u201d)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Fox News host also broadcast live from the Ellipse on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, appearing to give weight to Trump\u2019s Big Lie that the election was stolen, while speaking almost enthusiastically about the possibility of violence. \u201cWe\u2019re in a constitutional tinderbox,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MattGertz\/status\/1346805206277828609\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, citing arrests the previous day: \u201cWill there be contention tonight? That\u2019s a possibility as well.\u201d Indeed, Trump\u2019s supporters led a violent insurrection that day at the U.S. Capitol, in hopes of blocking Congress from certifying Trump\u2019s 2020 election loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMore recently, Hegseth wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffSharlet\/status\/1856596464010498369\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a> about defeating \u201cwoke\u201d culture in the military, titled <em>The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free<\/em>. He writes that the Pentagon has become anti-caucasian (\u201cthey believe \u2026 white people are yesterday\u201d) and is instead promoting \u201cdiverse recruits\u201d he alleges are \u201cpumped full of vaccines and even more poisonous ideologies,\u201d and that pose a risk to their \u201csane American\u201d bunkmates in basic training.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tRelated Content<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHegseth has spoken openly about cracking down on \u201cDEI woke shit\u201d within the military. Trump campaigned heavily on doing the same, showing clips of R. Lee Ermey\u2019s character in <em>Full Metal Jacket<\/em> abusing soldiers as an example of the type of behavior the military needs to embrace. Hegseth has also said bluntly that he doesn\u2019t believe women should be allowed to serve in combat roles.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHegseth was shot down as a contender to head the Department of Veterans Affairs during Trump\u2019s first administration thanks to stiff opposition from mainstream veterans groups. His nomination is likely to face stiff opposition in Congress \u2014 which may be a reason Trump has been lobbying the Senate to grant him recess appointment powers that would allow him to bypass that body\u2019s duty to advise and consent on nominees. John Thune, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/john-thune-voted-new-senate-majority-leader-1235164899\/\">who will replace Mitch McConnell<\/a> as Senate Majority Leader, has suggested he is open to allowing these recess appointments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRegardless of his viability, the fact that Trump nominated Hegseth marks a return to the trollish chaos and provocation that defined his governing style. Indeed \u2014 despite the immediate surprise within the party and among some of Trump\u2019s close allies \u2014 the fact that Trump would move to appoint a longtime Fox News figure to the most senior levels of the federal government would only sound out of place for those who didn\u2019t follow his first administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/pete-hegseth-defense-secretary-nomination-republicans-1235165232\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s second-term Cabinet was always going to be weird. 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