Trump to nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be defense secretary
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g-s1-33970/trump-pete-hegseth-fox-news-defense-department-military

* past CEO, Concerned Veterans for America, veteran advocacy organization
* Fox News contributor 2014+
* 1 House Republican Committee chair shocked at nomination
* Hegseth was not on known list of names under consideration
* no sense of his background/vision

#PeteHegseth #FoxNews #DefenseSec #ManhattanInstitute #USpol #Trump2 #GOP #militarism
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation

Trump's defence choice Pete Hegseth stuns Pentagon, raises questions about Fox News host's experience
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hegseth-defense-secretary-pentagon-2d8030921ecef933778cf92afd40ec72

* Trump stuns Pentagon/broader defence world in Hegseth as Sec. Defense
* Hegseth inexperienced/untested on global stage to run world's largest/most powerful military
* opposed to "woke" programs that promote equity &
* questioned role of women included in combat

#PeteHegseth #DefenseSec #USmilitary #Trump2 #GOP
#fascism #authoritarianism #misogyny #paternalism #sexism

Trump’s New Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth a Total Nightmare
https://newrepublic.com/post/188349/donald-trump-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-nightmare

* no women in combat, just white men in military
* Islamophobia
* ramblings about “woke” military leadership
* complained about Muslim birth rates in states such as MI
* supporter, “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer
* criticized elite universities

#PeteHegseth #FoxNews #DefenseSec #USmilitary #Trump2 #GOP
#LauraLoomer #Islamophobia #xenophobia #Christofascism
#fascism #authoritarianism #misogyny #paternalism #sexism

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In 2019 Hegseth, laughed on air [comment: Fox News, I presume 🤔🤦‍♀️] about not washing his hands for 10 years, saying,

“Germs are not a real thing. I can’t see them, therefore, they are not real.”

#PeteHegseth #FoxNews #DefenseSec #USmilitary #Trump2 #GOP
#LauraLoomer #Islamophobia #xenophobia #Christofascism #antiLGBT #antiDEI #racism
#fascism #authoritarianism #misogyny #paternalism #sexism
#ConspiracyTheorists #pseudoscience

TrumpPick For Defense Sec Pete Hegseth Spent College Years Crusading Against ‘Glorification of Diversity’ & ‘Homosexual Lifestyle’
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-pick-for-defense-sec-spent-his-college-years-crusading-against-glorification-of-diversity-and-the-homosexual-lifestyle

#PeteHegseth #DefenseSec #ManhattanInstitute #USpol #Trump2 #GOP #militarism
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation
#Christofasciam #antiLGBT #homophobia #antiDEI

Hegseth: Trump Defense Secretary Pick Hopes for Christian Crusade
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-peter-hegseth-defense-secretary-pick-theobros-hopes-for-a-christian-crusade

* Hegseth assoc. w. TheoBros
* ultra-conservative men, Christian nationalists
* U.S. should be subject to Biblical law

Pete Hegseth: Faith/Family/Freedom/American Mind
https://nashchristian.com/2023/12/pete-hegseth-faith-family-freedom-and-the-american-mind

#PeteHegseth #DefenseSec #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #antiLGBT #antiDEI
#Christofasciam #MikeFlynn #TheoBros #Gilead #HandmaidsTale
#theocracy #DominionTheology #ChristianNationalism #Protestantism

What's behind defense secretary pick Hegseth's war on 'woke'
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5191941/pete-hegseth-defense-department-dei

* Sec. Defense not an entry-level position
* Hegseth/conservatives complain military cares more about diversity/equity than meritocracy/preparing for war
* against military's efforts to address domestic extremism, which he labeled a "purge"
* white nationalist tattoo on chest

#PeteHegseth #DefenseSec #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #antiLGBT #antiDEI
#Christofasciam #ChristianNationalism #whiteNationalism

Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth flagged by fellow service member as possible Insider Threat
https://apnews.com/article/trump-defense-department-pentagon-hegseth-fox-news-8cd9f065e54a7cbbaceeec8bae9261a6

* Hegseth flagged as poss. “Insider Threat” by service member
* tattoo associated w. white supremacist groups
* Hegseth: it’s a sham that extremism is a problem in military
* supported military members accused of war crimes
* criticized military’s justice system

#PeteHegseth #DefenseSec #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism
#Christofascism #antiLGBT #antiDEI