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“I’ll get right to it,” said Pete Hegseth this morning, as he took to the lectern at the Pentagon briefing room the morning after impeachment articles were introduced against him by a member of his own party. And then he very much did not get right to it.
What Pete did get right to, however, was certainly interesting. In a speech that lasted just over a half hour (including a couple of questions) — and to which he actually arrived on time, an unusual feat — he claimed that the impeachment is being driven by one madman, except it’s also being done by the Democrats who hate the country, except it also only happened because of the evil commie media.
It’s all about the noble defenders of the republic, who just so happen to be him and Donald Trump and nobody else besides perhaps Marco Rubio (because screw JD Vance), except actually it’s about the service members who Democrats hate and want to put in prison. Oh, and he’s extremely anxious about the idea of having the funding cut off for his continuing war, which, anyway he already won.
