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10:01Now PlayingTrump's Cabinet Can't Win in Court, Can't Run a War, But At Least Their Shoes Match Now
Pete Hegseth held a press conference as Secretary of Defense on day 11 or 12 of a Middle East war that critics argue was launched at the urging of Benjamin Netanyahu, with consequences now rippling across global markets. Rather than addressing the closing of the Strait of Hormuz or the economic fallout hitting the United States, Hegseth used the moment to attack the American press and express enthusiasm for David Ellison's pending acquisition of CNN, suggesting that MAGA-aligned ownership would produce more favorable war coverage.
The background on Hegseth, from allegations of alcoholism at Fox News to a rape allegation backed by a police report and an NDA, raises serious questions about how 50 Republican senators voted to confirm him anyway. Meanwhile, US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro suffered a significant courtroom defeat when federal Judge Boasberg quashed grand jury subpoenas she had sent to the Federal Reserve and Jerome Powell, ruling the effort amounted to a harassment campaign. Pirro then held a press conference that Hawk describes as one of the most unhinged performances by a government official he has ever witnessed. Her record of failed prosecutions and lost indictments, driven by loyalty to Donald Trump rather than legal merit, reflects a Department of Justice operating as a political weapon.
Stephen Miller's role in conducting what Hawk calls an ethnic cleansing as official government policy, and a cabinet reportedly wearing ill-fitting shoes gifted by Trump rather than telling him they don't fit, round out a portrait of an executive branch built entirely on submission and loyalty.
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