It’s almost painfully obvious what a scam and a setup this whole “Pete Hegseth is killing innocent drug dealers!” thing is. Mysterious anonymous sources just happened to say exactly what the Democrats needed said following their illegal orders nonsense of last week, and exactly when they needed to change the subject from the murder of a soldier that was arguably contributed to by their illegal orders nonsense of last week. This is just the latest in an endless series of lies designed to undermine the will of the voters by undermining the Trump administration – throw it in the pile with Russiagate, trying to frame Trump, and Hunter Biden’s laptop, et al. But this latest phony scandal does raise an important question in American politics.