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Pete Hegseth is an Incompetent Liar
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July 22, 2026
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified before a Senate subcommittee, requesting roughly 70 billion dollars more for the war in Iran, and Hawk watched hours of it in a state of frustration. His honest read is that Hegseth is effective on camera, slicker in the rhetorical back and forth than most of the senators questioning him, which made the substance harder to pin down.
That substance is what bothers Hawk. Hegseth described Iran as being at its weakest ever, days after three more US service members were killed, bringing the reported total to 18 dead. Hawk found the tone flippant given those losses, and lays out the talking points Hegseth returned to again and again, that the United States did not start the war, plus repeated invocations of woke and Biden, enough that Hawk half-jokingly proposes a drinking game.
Hawk raises the unresolved questions hanging over Hegseth, including the settlement with a woman who accused him of sexual assault, which he denies, and his pattern on the boat strikes off Venezuela, where he has not publicly proven the roughly 200 people killed were traffickers. Hawk argues these are matters for future accountability, potentially state charges a president cannot pardon.
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