The name of the Department of Defense and the title of Secretary of Defense can only be changed by an act of Congress. So it doesn’t matter if Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump change her job title to Queen of England. Hegseth’s official and legal title is Secretary of Defense, and that is how he will be referred to in this publication.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared on CBS’ Face The Nation to discuss the supposed deal coming any minute to end the war in Iran that Trump and Hegseth started and continued to lose.
Even though CBS is now owned by Trump ally David Ellison and CBS News is run (into the ground) by Bari Weiss, the Face The Nation interview was not a Fox News style article. The war in Iran is so unpopular that we had to react.
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The problem was that Hegseth made so many absurd claims, detached from reality, that they could not be ignored.
Despite multiple reports from Pentagon sources, U.S. weapons stockpiles are dangerously low, and Hegseth has testified before Congress that the national weapons stockpile is low; the Secretary of Defense said everything was fine.
Face The Nation host Margaret Brennan asked Hegseth: “Ukrainian President Zelensky was on this program a few weeks ago. He advocated not only for more interceptors, but also for the ability to produce them so that friendly governments can produce Patriots. Some Republican lawmakers support this idea. How about you?”
Hegseth responded: “Ukrainian President Zelensky was on this program a few weeks ago. He advocated not only for more interceptors, but also for the ability to produce them so that friendly governments can produce Patriots. Some Republican lawmakers support this idea. And you? No one makes better and more munitions than the United States of America, and we are open to co-production wherever we can. And through this administration, we are strengthening our arsenal of freedom, let’s build more, let’s build faster, let’s open up The Pentagon, destroying the Pentagon bureaucracy to force industry to move faster.
Brennan said: “There is a crisis with these stocks right now…Is there a crisis with these stocks right now?
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Hegseth replied: “No, there isn’t… it’s a fabricated story that the media wants to peddle. »
So the inventory crisis that Hegseth spoke about before Congress was real, is it now invented? Does this mean Hegseth lied to Congress?
Hegseth ran into more trouble when he tried to defend the Trump Iran deal, which may or may not happen.