In a speech on the Senate floor this week, Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee slammed the left wing media for their false smear campaign against Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.
Holding up a copy of the New York Times, Hagerty pointed out how the headline of a recent smear story doesn’t even match what’s reported in the actual story.
It has been clear for weeks that Democrats and the media want to derail Hegseth’s nomination. They do not want him in this job and they don’t want Trump to prevail in this fight.
From The Federalist:
While speaking on the Senate floor on Thursday, Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., offered a scathing takedown of the propaganda media’s disgusting attempts to tank Pete Hegseth’s defense secretary nomination.
“Despite Pete’s qualifications, the mainstream media, desperate to derail President Trump and his nominees, has gone after Pete’s character by airing false and unsubstantiated claims,” Hagerty said…
On Tuesday, NBC News reported on an affidavit from Hegseth’s former sister-in-law Danielle Diettrich Hegseth, who claimed without evidence that Pete engaged in threatening conduct that left his second ex-wife Samantha Hegseth fearful for her “safety.” It is only after readers get to the ninth paragraph of the article that they are informed that Samantha denies the allegations.
In his Senate floor speech, Hagerty highlighted how The New York Times article on the non-troversy declined to mention Samantha’s denial in its headline and how readers must read more than a dozen paragraphs into the story to learn the truth.
“This isn’t journalism. … This is a hit-job,” Hagerty said. “The New York Times intentionally ran with a salacious and debunked account, buried the truth, and distorted the lede simply to undermine President Trump and his nominee.”
Here’s the video:
HOLY SMOKES: Sen. Bill Hagerty just went scorched earth on the Dem/legacy media coordinated smear campaign on Hegseth:
“The American people are sick and tired of the deception stemming from this alliance between the Democrat Party and the so-called mainstream media.”
“This is… pic.twitter.com/3JUhIim19V
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 23, 2025
If only more Republicans would speak out against the media like this.
