WEST POINT: How The Attempt To Smear Hegseth (Again) Fell Apart

It’s a good thing Pete is the kind of guy who keeps his documents, or they would have run a story that was a complete lie. It all goes back to a strategy Nancy Pelosi describes as ‘the wrap up smear’.

The strategy has three steps. An allegation (probably false or at best half-true) is made about the target individual or entity. The allegation legitimized in the press. It’s amplified by people citing press reports.

We’ve seen it all the time The grand-daddy of them all might be the Steel Reprt Dossier that kicked off the Russian Collusion hoax with the claims of ‘pee-pee tapes’. That series of lies led to Mueller Report, GOP losing the House in 2018, and (eventually) impeachment. The ‘reputable’ press have no intention of returning their Pulitzer prizes for those stories, even though they were lies.

Let’s see the same principle at work in the Pete Hegseth story… and you can be sure it’s being attempted on some level with a long list of Trump’s appointees, especially the ones that most directly threaten the status quo.

Pete Hegseth applied to the Ivy League schools AND he applied to West Point. He chose the Ivy League route.

NPR reached out to him with a story that was going to press ‘in one hour’ in which representatives from West Point asserted that Pete Hegseth’s claim he had been accepted to West Point was false. If true, that would be a pretty big story for a guy nominated to be the Secretary of Defense. If false, it would be a damnable lie.

But Pete was ready for them:

We understand that ProPublica (the Left Wing hack group) is planning to publish a knowingly false report that I was not accepted to West Point in 1999.

Here’s my letter of acceptance signed by West Point Superintendent, Lieutenant General Daniel Christman, US Army. pic.twitter.com/UOhOVZSfhJ

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) December 11, 2024

Pete produced the acceptance letter he was given from West Point… anything less than the written acceptance letter would have left wriggle room for NPR to write a story about officials ‘claiming’ he had not been accepted… and by the time the truth came out, seeds of doubt about his integrity and character would already have been sown.

In other words: it would have been mission accomplished for the smear merchants.

That leaves the question of why they would be so quick to accept such a serious (and obviously false) story about him with such a small window of opportunity for him to refute it… and also the real story: why is someone claiming to speak for West Point smearing Presidential nominees… especially the SecDef?

West Point said an employee made a mistake by claiming Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Defense Department, was not accepted into the military academy.

An academy spokesperson told The Washington Times on Wednesday that Mr. Hegseth, a retired Army major, was offered acceptance into West Point’s class of 2003 but an employee provided a media outlet “an incorrect statement” on Dec. 10 involving his admission, apparently without reviewing an archived database. —Washington Times

That employee made a derogatory claim about Pete Hegseth… without so much as checking the records.

All it does is reinforce everything we already believe about an administrative state that thinks THEY are people who are REALLY in charge of the government, to hell with what those po’ rubes in flyover country have to say about it.

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