Pete Hegseth DOD 11-18-24

Pete Hegseth is Trump's Pick to Serve as Secretary of Defense. He will cancel DEI and remove Marxist Woke indoctrination from the DOD. He will increase recruitment in all branches of the US Military. He is pro-military and they know it. He will replace current leadership to support replacing War with Total Economic Isolation. He will focus on Special Ops recruiting to remove the Drug Cartels. 

He's a military veteran. Hegseth has served in the military, although he lacks senior military or national security experience.

After graduating from Princeton University in 2003, Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry captain in the Army National Guard, serving overseas in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as at Guantanamo Bay.

In picking Fox News Channel host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense, President-elect Donald Trump has selected a military veteran and popular conservative media personality with a large following of his own.

By Associated Press 11-12-24

Hegseth, 44, has developed a close rapport with Trump, who also reportedly considered him for a post in his first administration. Hegseth has lobbied Trump to release service members accused of war crimes.

Here are a few things to know about Hegseth. He's a Fox News personality and author.

Co-host of Fox News Channel's “Fox & Friends Weekend,” Hegseth has been a contributor to the network for a decade. He developed a friendship with Trump through the president-elect's regular appearances on the show. In a statement, a Fox News spokesperson complimented Hegseth's military knowledge, saying his “insights and analysis especially about the military resonated deeply with our viewers.”

He's also written a number of books, several for the network's publishing imprint, including “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.” In announcing Hegseth's nomination, Trump complimented that book, noting its “nine weeks on the New York Times best-sellers list, including two weeks at NUMBER ONE.”

He was formerly head of the Concerned Veterans for America, a group backed by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch, and also unsuccessfully ran for the Senate in Minnesota in 2012. According to his Fox News bio, he has a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

As Trump formulated his first Cabinet following his 2016 win, he reportedly considered Hegseth to run the Department of Veterans Affairs. He again considered Hegseth when Secretary David Shulkin faced criticism before his ouster in 2018.

He's defended service members accused of war crimes. In 2019, Hegseth urged Trump to pardon U.S. service members who had been accused of war crimes. He advocated for the servicemen's cases on his show and online, interviewing relatives on Fox News. He posted on social media that pardons from Trump “would be amazing," and added hashtags with the names of those accused to reporting mentioning his private lobbying of the then-president.

The effort was successful, with Trump that year pardoning a former U.S. Army commando set to stand trial in the killing of a suspected Afghan bomb-maker, as well as a former Army lieutenant convicted of murder for ordering his men to fire upon three Afghans, killing two. Trump also ordered a promotion for a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq. The effort was successful, with Trump that year pardoning a former U.S. Army commando set to stand trial in the killing of a suspected Afghan bomb-maker, as well as a former Army lieutenant convicted of murder for ordering his men to fire upon three Afghans, killing two. Trump also ordered a promotion for a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq.

He will rely on Trump to end the Wars in Ukraine and Israel. Hegseth would lead the Pentagon to transition from War to total economic isolation of bad actors and fill the ranks to remove the Drug Cartels.

Trump’s relationship with his civilian and military leaders during those years was ended when they refused to implement his reforms.

Many of the generals who worked in his first administration — both on active duty and retired — have slammed him as unfit to serve in the Oval Office. He has condemned them in return.

Comments

Since World War II, the DOD has been involved providing “Military Defense and Aid” to foreign countries to prevent the spread of Communism and Islamic Terror, Achieving a lasting peace in Ukraine and the Middle East will end this ERA. If this reform ever fails, the DOD should be renamed as the Department of Military Foreign Aid.

The Deep State in the DOD is what President Eisenhauer warned about when he called it the Military-Industrial Complex. Trump wants to replace War with Total Economic Isolation. Trump will use the US Air Force and Special Forces to eliminate the Drug Cartels and continue to support the development of an Iron Dome to protect the US. Pete Hegseth will be able to make this transition and will attract our best military talent.

The Deep State is also in the CIA and has infected the DOJ and FBI.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader