Pete Hegseth doesn’t owe you an explanation.
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The vice president shared this thought yesterday with an audience at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, drawing applause at the end.
If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story.
Hegseth has his favorite soundbites — but none of them landed here, where he sounded increasingly deluded and desperate, writes…
The defense secretary appears to want flag officers who will not challenge potentially illegal orders.
How did standards for military leaders fall so low?
Hegseth wants journalists to only publish ‘explicitly authorized’ information. That is not how the free press works
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Hawkish Trump supporters deserve this humiliation.
