Pete Hegseth, who is President Donald Trump’s nominee for Defense secretary, has been making the rounds of the offices of senators who will be voting on his confirmation. On Monday, he met with Sen. Dan Sullivan in the senator’s D.C. office, and the senator had good things to say about the nominee, who is being trashed by Democrat partisans on Capitol Hill and in the legacy media.
“I had a productive meeting with SecDef nominee @PeteHegseth today,” Sullivan wrote. “We focused on the importance of restoring lethality and warfighting as the core mission at the Pentagon as well as the strategic importance of Alaska. I’m confident Pete will work to refocus our military on lethality and peace through strength, as well as getting rid of the damaging woke policies of the Biden admin, some of which I witnessed firsthand as a Marine Corps Reserve Officer.”
Hegseth might eventually visit Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, but that may be down the list for him, along with Maine Sen. Susan Collins. Those two Republicans are seen as hostile to the incoming administration. After all, it was Murkowski who voted to convict Donald Trump after he left the presidency in 2021, and it was Murkowski who believed the “me too” stories about now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and refused to vote to confirm him.
Murkowski, who flunked the Alaska Bar exam four times, had already signaled she would not vote to confirm Matt Gaetz as the next U.S. Attorney General because he was not “a serious candidate.” Gaetz has withdrawn his name.
Hegseth is facing accusations that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2017, although neither the local California district attorney nor the local police found the claims to be credible and the case never went to prosecution. Hegseth has indicated he was being stalked by the accuser.
Also visiting Sullivan this week was Rep. Elise Stefanik, whom Trump nominated for United Nations Ambassador.
“It was great meeting with Rep. @EliseStefanik today and I’m looking forward to hosting her back home in Alaska. It has been a pleasure working alongside Elise in Congress to combat antisemitism, which has been disturbingly on the rise around the world and pervasive in the UN for decades. I have full confidence Elise will do a great job representing the American people, will bring much-needed American leadership to the UN, and will hold those with anti-American and antisemitic views in the body accountable. Peace Through Strength!” Sullivan said.
Jonesing for support. No one will put their head on the chopping block for Pete.
Weird latest reports say Pete has all the republican Senators support. You are miss informed. What is your source, the national inquirer?
Two staunch American first citizens. So happy to see backbone rising above the hideous current
administration’s version of National defense and UN kowtowing. Cheers to both and the heck with “Princess Lisa” and her foot stomping escapades.
“Sully” may be our salvation with Trump’s attitude toward Alaska.
Cheers,
If we still need more “lethality and warfighting” capability when we spend more than the next eight countries COMBINED you have to wonder what we are getting out of our “defense” spending. Recent conflicts continue to show basic weapons can overcome hi-tech ones and they also show that those adversaries we use as a reason to spend so much are really incapable of winning much of anything. Russia is using 50 year old tanks, their one aircraft carrier has not left the dock in years and when it did a tug boat had to travel with it being so undependable. Warmonger Dan, our Senator from Ohio, is running out of reason to keep his buddies in the Military Industrial Complex in business.
I read today that Lindsey who initially supported Pete is backing away as more alligations come out. Apparently Pete was forced of vet leadership roles for drunkenness and conduct unbecoming. Not somebody we want leading our military.
Greg, you never cease to amaze. As the MSM spews undocumented trash about Hegseth, you regurgitate it here as fact. You are better than this Greg. You must allow the proper vetting of these smear campaigns before vomiting them out here, otherwise it’s blatant slander. Stop already. Remember, innocent until proven guilty and not “proven” by unnamed sources as the MSM always miraculously comes up with.
As Pete’s days are numbered, Trump is now considering DeSantis for the job. Your feed is dated. You are 1 to 2 days behind the news.
‘https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/04/defense-secretary-nominee-pete-hegseth-says-trump-told-him-keep-going-keep-fighting/
I’ll just leave this here for you. Seems Trump told Pete to keep fighting…. another one of your claims crumpled.
And yet trump privately is working on a short list.
So you are on Trumps inner circle. Highly doubt it.
If that comes to be you’ll just regurgitate the same B.S. about DeSantis.
It’s not slander if it’s true. It’s just reporting. All I do is repeat what I read. Just like you. You believe who you want to. So will i.
I consider the source before I believe.
That’s always a good point. It usually takes more than one accusation to convince me that there is a pattern.
Weird how all the witnesses are anonymous
Greg is absolutely not “better than this”. He just mindlessly repeats the DNC spin he is fed.
Absolutely. I’m no better or worse than anyone else on here. I’m just a guy with an opinion exercising my first amendment rights. None of you truly know me, So I would caution you to not put me on such a high pedestal. I am just a man after all.
Makes one wonder how much you are earning to riddle MRAK’s comment section. I honestly do not believe you are exercising your first amendment right, let alone pouring out your convictions of truth.
So you think i’m on someone’s payroll? Hmmm, that’s not a bad idea. Getting paid while playing.
Cowardly Lindsay will fold to the highest bidder. As for the allegations against Hegseth, typical leftist smear using Alinsky tactics of polarizing, demonizing, and destroying any person they disagree with. This alone tells us Hegseth is the right man for the job.
Agreed!
It is always interesting how all of a sudden all these allegations show up, some decades later. Then press and democrats demand to only confirm conservative candidates who are “clean as the wind driven snow”. However when their are in charge their guys need to be confirmed regardless, because they somehow deserve it and they use their power without shame to promote their agenda. (Pete Buttigieg, Rachel Lavine anyone?)
Using our moral values against us, another paradigm of Saul Alinsky!
Yes, that’s what MSNBC — er, NBC (what’s the diff?) — says with their myriad anonymous sources that are oh-so afraid of “retaliation” over calling an ex-co-worker a drunk.
And Lindsay is always ready to sacrifice our sons on the alter of war.
Fake news
For Pete sake! Let the man rid us of totalitarians/ communists and thieves.
That wouldn’t be his job classification. He has to follow the constitution and he isn’t a cop.
Funding genocide and stealing land is Pro-American ??? What ???
Worked good in the past for America.
You just outed yourself as a dem. Nice job
Three AIPAC stooges.
Good to see Dan, hasn’t been out in quite awhile.
This is sad. When you had the former Speaker of the house, old Nancy stand right in front of the nation and laugh as she told us about the Demoncats infamous “wrap up smear campaigns”. Where you feed salacious lies to the media, then wait for them to regurgitate it out to the public. Once it is out there you simply point to those news stories as your reason to slander the innocent person that you started the lies about to begin with. Of course, the Commie News Network and msDNC never have anything but the “anonymous sources” to push these stories out.
Kinda like the story of Hunter’s laptop being “Russian Disinformation” that ended up being verified as being real and used against Hunter at trial where he was found guilty.
But don’t worry, Pop’s the Dementia patient residing in the White House took care of that with the sweeping Pardon that covers everything that Hunter has done over the past decade or so.
Sure, keep reading and listening to the left leaning media with their anonymous sources believing every word they push, and wake up one day wondering how we ended up in a full-blown Communist nation.
I guess I don’t understand why Trump can’t find someone else qualified who can show being faithful in his marriages and not drinking heavily. This guy is a serial adulterer. We should make decisions on history- best predictor of future behavior. This guys personal life and history of poor decisions that are about gratifying himself matter because of the level of power he will wield. I don’t trust someone that doesn’t have the integrity to at least get divorced before he goes and screws another woman and is known for partying. It’s risky. Pick Desantis or someone who doesn’t make those choices. That’s not a left or right propaganda thing it’s a integrity thing.
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