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If at first you don’t succeed… New smear campaign targets Hegseth

May 28, 2025 | | Print Article

Another round of smears has been unleashed against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after the failure of the “Signalgate” scam to force his ouster as the top man at the Pentagon.

Hegseth’s mission to return warfighting and readiness as the military’s primary focus after the four-year “woke” DEI nightmare of his predecessor, Lloyd Austin, has been met with a fierce reaction by the Democrats and their attack dogs, who after failing to prevent his confirmation, have fired up their media slime machine.

Following the Memorial Day weekend when SECDEF paid his respectful tribute to the nation’s fallen heroes, a pair of sleazy narratives are percolating, with one accusing the patriotic Hegseth of not practicing what he preaches when it comes to America First.

Mediaite, an online outlet that specializes in amplifying anti-Trump propaganda, is promoting an accusation that the American flag suits that Hegseth has worn aren’t made in America but come from overseas.

“This suit appears to be from Book A Tailor, a company that produces its clothes in Thailand,” wrote an X user named Derek Guy, who runs a clothing blog.

Guy, a Canadian who is known as “the menswear guy,” urged Hegseth, “Instead of covering yourself in USA flags, would you be interested in supporting US tailoring shops that employ US cutters and coatmakers?”

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In another post replying to a critic, Guy accused Hegseth of “virtue signaling” and said that “wearing a US flag as lining signals patriotism, but buying US-made clothes from US cutters and tailors actually supports US jobs, which is more substantive.”

In another more serious story that bears keeping an eye on with Hegseth set to testify at a Senate hearing next month, UK-based outlet The Guardian claims that the Trump White House has “lost confidence” in a Pentagon leak probe that resulted in three top aides being fired, and that an illegal warrantless wiretap may have been used to target leakers.

“The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Pete Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides last month, after advisers were told that the aides had supposedly been outed by an illegal warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap,” the outlet reported. “The extraordinary explanation alarmed the advisers, who also raised it with people close to JD Vance, because such a wiretap would almost certainly be unconstitutional and an even bigger scandal than a number of leaks.”

One indication that the story is another hoax is that The Guardian cites the usual anonymous sources in “four people familiar with the matter” who if they even exist, are likely motivated by either a grudge against Hegseth or the desire to see him replaced as the Pentagon boss by someone more like Austin, or at least a more traditional individual who isn’t interested in reforms.

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According to The Guardian, “the advisers found the claim to be untrue and complained that they were being fed dubious information by Hegseth’s personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, who had been tasked with overseeing the investigation.”

Even though the central premise of the story is admitted to be false, the outlet suggests that it could be a signal of a “breakdown in trust between the Pentagon and the White House.”

Senate Democrats, whose only mode is operating in bad faith, will almost certainly bring it up at the upcoming hearings, with the media dutifully doing its part to manufacture a sequel to “Signalgate” that failed to resonate with the public.

“The fraught situation is sure to increase pressure on Hegseth ahead of a Senate hearing next month, and more broadly for his office, which has been roiled by the leak investigation that has now continued for nearly a month with no new evidence or referral to the FBI,” the Guardian predicted.

Last week, it was the secretary’s leading of a Christian prayer service that was attacked, with the New York Times very unhappy that Hegseth would do such a thing, a typical reaction from the gazette of the godless left.

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You have to hand it to the leftist media, they just don’t give up.

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