[thread] Pete Hegseth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth
* Fox News pol. commentator/author/U.S. Army Nat. Guard officer
* Nov 2024 Trump nom. as U.S. Secretary of Defense
* conservative Republican
* briefly at Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
[thread] John Phelan
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113557205955926719
#USpol #PeteHegseth #SexAbuse #DefenseSec #ManhattanInstitute
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation
#Christofascism #antiLGBT #homophobia #antiDEI #misogyny #sexism
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
It's going to be random people in jobs they know nothing about, isn't it?