The campaign to sabotage Pete Hegseth’s tenure as Secretary of Defense is very real, with bad-faith actors from within and outside of the DOD appearing to engage in coordinated smear attempts designed to ramp up public pressure in hopes he’ll either resign or be forced out after three months at the helm.
President Donald Trump has basically told Hegseth’s critics to pound sand, responding to one reporter’s question on whether he is still confident in Hegseth by noting that, “He’s doing a great job…Ask the Houthis how he’s doing. Ask the Houthis how much dysfunction there is.” He also labeled any reports that a replacement search was underway “fake news.”
But the POTUS telling detractors to take a flying leap hasn’t stopped The Usual Suspects in the MSM from aiding and abetting in the ouster endeavor, with the New York Times, NPR, and, of course, The Atlantic leading the way in banging the “DOD in disarray” drum quite loudly.
On Wednesday, CBS News added to the frenzied anti-Hegseth news cycle by publishing its own hit piece on how the Pentagon Green Room had allegedly been turned into an expensive make-up studio Hegseth could use to get primped and prepped ahead of media appearances: