How Left-Wing Media’s Failed Hit Piece Just Made Pete Hegseth Defense Secretary

“Independent” investigative “news” organization ProPublica sh*t the proverbial bed and consequently ensured Hegsmith confirmation.

We understand that ProPublica (the Left Wing hack group) is planning to publish a knowingly false report that I was not accepted to West Point in 1999.

Here’s my letter of acceptance signed by West Point Superintendent, Lieutenant General Daniel Christman, US Army. pic.twitter.com/UOhOVZSfhJ

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) December 11, 2024

Here’s a story about how journalism works – unless Pete Hegseth saved a literal copy of a college acceptance letter from 25 years ago, ProPublica would have published a false story based on speculation as an attempt to smear a political enemy. https://t.co/wbv1BF2AyX

— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) December 11, 2024

This email … wow.

Just. Wow.

And you called this journalism.@propublica pic.twitter.com/qW6amZ6veI

— TheFOO (@PolitiBunny) December 12, 2024

ProPublica’s Editor-in-Chief claimed that they gave @PeteHegseth a fair chance to respond to the West Point story because they “care about accuracy.”

According to this unhinged email obtained by @reaganreese_, they straight up accused him of being a liar and gave him a one hour… pic.twitter.com/PHdkcl7CzP

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 12, 2024

.@propublica is a left-wing smear outlet.

They have long used George Soros’s money to lie about Justice Thomas, and now they’re coming after @PeteHegseth.

No one should believe a word that comes from these activists. https://t.co/oGgAfD7tbz

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) December 13, 2024

Leftist ProPublica’s Failed Hit Piece Just Made Pete Hegseth Defense Secretary

ProPublica didn’t merely beclown itself with its latest smear job; it just guaranteed Pete Hegseth’s confirmation

By: M.D. Kittle

ProPublica just hit the roadside bomb of journalism. Now, the leftist “independent” investigative “news” organization is forced to pick up the pieces of its blown-up hit piece on Pete Hegseth, an IED of political opposition-research style reportage.

But while it tries to put on a brave face, ProPublica didn’t merely beclown itself with its latest smear job; the news outlet just guaranteed Hegseth’s confirmation as President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary.

A Soldier’s Soldier

It is the crazy nature of leftist scorched-earth politics that a distinguished veteran of two wars, a man who truly dodged roadside bombs, has been under constant attack by Democrats and war-hungry Republicans since Trump called on him to serve his country again. Hegseth is the perfect pick to clean up a Pentagon infiltrated by corruption, callousness, greed, and leftist indoctrination.

The 2003 Princeton University graduate and commissioned infantry officer in the Army National Guard led combat soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, also serving at Guantánamo Bay. He was CEO of Concerned Veterans for America, an organization whose mission is to “advance policies that will preserve the freedom and prosperity that veterans — and their families — so proudly fought and sacrificed to defend.”

As his longtime friend and fellow war veteran Mark Lucas recently wrote at The Federalist, “Hegseth’s leadership will ensure our military returns to the basics of defeating our adversaries, rather than pushing a social justice agenda.”

“Our military is in the midst of a readiness and recruitment crisis, and reform is needed fast,” wrote Lucas, who, like Hegseth, served as an infantry rifle platoon leader in combat. He also worked with the cabinet secretary nominee at CVA.