After last night's Senate vote that called for VP JD Vance to cast the tiebreaker, Pete Hegseth is now officially the new Secretary of Defense:
BREAKING: Pete Hegseth has been sworn in as Secretary of Defense.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) January 25, 2025
The swearing in was performed by our Vice President JD Vance.
Congratulations @PeteHegseth pic.twitter.com/1qwUWbtOj6
Axios has a story about how the odds for a Hegseth confirmation changed rather rapidly:
How Pete Hegseth's nomination came back from "90% dead" https://t.co/qjUXaY9Re8
— Axios (@axios) January 25, 2025
It wouldn't at least partly have something to do with the media pushing a smear job about Hegseth and his ex-wife that even the ex-wife denied but reporting it anyway, would it?
You guys helped. https://t.co/A87j8AAEP4
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 25, 2025
You in dying legacy media did an awesome job bringing back so thank you!
— Kate Austin (@KateAus1976) January 25, 2025
Take a bow. You definitely helped.
— Gaeta1986 🍊 (@jameslaura86) January 25, 2025
Many are confused because the smears didn't resonate enough.
Perhaps trying to Kavanaugh every nominee you don’t like isn’t such a great strategy…🤔
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) January 25, 2025
But they sure tried anyway.
You were powerless despite your sabotage efforts. pic.twitter.com/HhSEzBgOBV
— JWF (@JammieWF) January 25, 2025
Axios was among the media outlets that tried their best:
NEW: Pete Hegseth's former sister-in-law said that his ex-wife feared for her safety. The defense secretary nominee denies the claims. https://t.co/rX3HGSh7WF
— Axios (@axios) January 21, 2025
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Forget that Hegseth's ex-wife denied all that, they had some journalisming to do!
Americans are not fans of coordinated persecutions. This might have been a lesson learned in recent history.
— Sue (@SusanK1717) January 25, 2025
We're going to guess Dems and the media have learned nothing from the last few months, and that's not necessarily a bad thing for the Republic.
But the bottom line is...
Nevertheless, he persisted.pic.twitter.com/zocXtN4hBm
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) January 25, 2025
That alone is enough to cause PTSD.
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