In a speech on the Senate flooring this week, Senator Invoice Hagerty of Tennessee slammed the left wing media for his or her false smear marketing campaign towards Protection Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.
Holding up a duplicate of the New York Instances, Hagerty identified how the headline of a latest smear story doesn’t even match what’s reported within the precise story.
It has been clear for weeks that Democrats and the media need to derail Hegseth’s nomination. They don’t want him on this job and so they don’t need Trump to prevail on this struggle.
From The Federalist:
Whereas talking on the Senate flooring on Thursday, Sen. Invoice Hagerty, R-Tenn., supplied a scathing takedown of the propaganda media’s disgusting makes an attempt to tank Pete Hegseth’s protection secretary nomination.
“Regardless of Pete’s {qualifications}, the mainstream media, determined to derail President Trump and his nominees, has gone after Pete’s character by airing false and unsubstantiated claims,” Hagerty mentioned…
On Tuesday, NBC Information reported on an affidavit from Hegseth’s former sister-in-law Danielle Diettrich Hegseth, who claimed with out proof that Pete engaged in threatening conduct that left his second ex-wife Samantha Hegseth fearful for her “security.” It’s only after readers get to the ninth paragraph of the article that they’re knowledgeable that Samantha denies the allegations.
In his Senate flooring speech, Hagerty highlighted how The New York Instances article on the non-troversy declined to say Samantha’s denial in its headline and the way readers should learn greater than a dozen paragraphs into the story to study the reality.
“This isn’t journalism. … This can be a hit-job,” Hagerty mentioned. “The New York Instances deliberately ran with a salacious and debunked account, buried the reality, and distorted the lede merely to undermine President Trump and his nominee.”
Right here’s the video:
HOLY SMOKES: Sen. Invoice Hagerty simply went scorched earth on the Dem/legacy media coordinated smear marketing campaign on Hegseth:
“The American persons are sick and bored with the deception stemming from this alliance between the Democrat Social gathering and the so-called mainstream media.”
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— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 23, 2025
If solely extra Republicans would communicate out towards the media like this.