Media Releases Another Hit Piece on Def Sec Pete Hegseth

Cue the chorus of cowardly Pentagon press loose lips who won’t go on the record but are willing to heap unverified doom-and-gloom from their basement bunkers.

These spooks who can’t give their names tell the Daily Mail that there is a letter circulating among the brass and civilian workers in the Pentagon saying that Hegseth is unfit to lead the military. The letter is supposed to come out soon. In the meantime, the Daily Mail reports their list of grievances, including politicized leadership and department-wide dysfunction to sagging morale and what they say is a culture of paranoia fueled by Hegseth’s relentless drive to sniff out dissent.

Tanking morale? Yeah, that’s total B.S. Let me tell you when morale (and recruitment) were tanking: that was under Joe Biden and his Def Sec., DEI hire Lloyd Austin who was kicking out the military for not taking Covid shots and making sure that the military was diverse enough for the Democratic Party’s liking.

It doesn’t end there, however. Lloyd was in command during the Afghanistan withdrawal & Kabul airport chaos, the botched drone strike in Kabul, the Gaza floating pier failure and much more. He also went AWOL, not informing the President, the White House or Congress of his cancer treatment. How does that kind of “leadership” make anyone want to join the military?

Compare that chaos with what’s happening now…According to the New York Post, under the leadership of Hegseth and President Trump, military recruitment is not only meeting goals – it’s smashing them. The Army has already signed 61,000 new contracts for FY 2025, blowing past the 55,150 figure from FY 2024.

Even USAFacts reports that the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines are all exceeding targets around spring 2025 USAFacts. Hard to call that “low morale” when enlistments are surging.

But we’re living in a Trump-hating world where attacks fly from every direction – even from career bureaucrats and military brass at the Pentagon. Despite this, recruitment is surging, pay has increased, and the military is growing stronger.

Hit pieces about Hegseth have been written since he was nominated for the job, and continue to this day. The Atlantic currently has one titled “The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place” and the Guardian’s “Pete Hegseth is skirting the law by bringing back Confederate names of army bases.”

When pushing back against a hit piece in the past, Hegseth said during an interview recorded on CSPAN that the lies about him are coming from “the same media that peddled the Russia hoax…they take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees and then they try to slash and burn people. And ruin their reputations. Not going to work with me. Because we’re changing the defense department, putting the Pentagon back in the hands of warfighters…”

He went on to lambast the media standing in front of him called them hoaxters saying they “peddle anonymous sources from leakers with axes to grind and then you put it all together as if it’s some news story.”