Trump’s latest crazy pick: Fox News host Pete Hegseth for SecDef

Of all the crazy choices Trump could make for his cabinet, I didn’t even see this one coming

Pete, damn Hegseth? He has been a TV jerk since 2014.

Over the years I’ve described this asshole as Trump’s personal fluffer.

I’m not questioning his services, but this is fucking Looney Tunes.

Hegseth was a failed Trump candidate for Veterans Affairs in 2018.

NewsHound Ellen wrote this article at the time: Fox Host Pete Hegseth Exposed as Self-dealing, Cheating Hypocrite, Passed Over for VA Nomination

This idiot even had the audacity to claim the term Redskins was a term of respect when Washington football became embroiled in the name controversy. Fox’s Hegseth: ‘Redskins’ was historically used as ‘a term of respect’

Recently, his claim to fame was staked war criminals found guilty by military courts and pardoned by Trump.

It’s bad enough that Donald Trump apparently plans to “honor” Memorial Day by pardoning a slew of war criminals; it’s even worse that the decision came after secret lobbying efforts by Fox & Friends host Pete Hegseth.

The New York Timeswhich reported Trump’s upcoming plans last weekend, wrote that those likely to be pardoned include Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher of the Navy SEALs, Army Green Beret Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn and a security contractor from Blackwater are. The Times wrote of their crimes (emphasis added):

Navy SEALs who served with Chief Gallagher told authorities that he shot indiscriminately at civilians, shooting a young woman wearing a floral hijab and an unarmed old man. They also said he stabbed a teenage inmate and bragged about it in text messages. His trial starts at the end of this month. If convicted, he faces life in prison. He has pleaded not guilty and denies all charges.

Major Golsteyn is accused of killing an Afghan man who he and other soldiers said had bomb-making materials. After an interrogation, the soldiers let the man go. Fearing that the man would return to making improvised explosive devices, which had already killed two Marines in the area, Major Golsteyn later said he had killed the man.

Mr Trump singled out both men on Twitter, calling Major Golsteyn an “American military hero” and praising Chief Gallagher for his service to the country.

Hegseth was looking for a job in the bastard’s administration and his lapdog efforts paid off.

What a slap in the face to the entire US military apparatus and to those of us who depend on it.