Pete Hegseth is the victim of a vicious character assassination by the media.
Another hit piece has crossed a bright red line.
And a journalist launched one sick attack on Pete Hegseth’s military record.
Washington Post downplays the significance of Pete Hegseth’s two Bronze Stars
The media went back to the playbook it used against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in his 2018 confirmation fight against President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee, former Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth has been attacked by anonymous sources and innuendo to falsely claim that he committed sexual assault and has a drinking problem.
The former Fox News star has a chance to reform the Pentagon so the Washington, D.C. Swamp and its allies are throwing everything but the kitchen sink at him to sink his nomination.
Washington Post journalist Alex Horton tried to downplay the significance of the two Bronze Stars that Hegseth was awarded for his service in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Horton claimed that Bronze Stars “were issued somewhat liberally throughout the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
The article claimed without evidence that Bronze Stars like Hegseth that were awarded were seen as a “participation trophy.”
“Military experts say there is a mistaken belief among much of the American public that the Bronze Star is a rarefied award exclusively for battlefield heroics, which has distorted and inflated its significance in many cases,” Horton claimed.
Hegseth served as an officer in the Army National Guard and led an infantry platoon in Iraq.
Horton argued that Hegseth’s Bronze Stars weren’t as worthy as the ones earned by enlisted soldiers.
“While many officers have risked their lives on the battlefield, the majority of fighting and exposure to danger is performed by the enlisted troops they command,” Horton claimed.
Horton had to admit the truth about Hegseth’s service after making it seem like Hegseth avoided combat, Horton admitted that the Defense Secretary nominee was a decorated combat veteran.
“Hegseth also received a Combat Infantryman Badge, which is awarded when infantry soldiers and officers engage an enemy in combat,” Horton wrote.
Washington Post slammed for its disgusting attack on Hegseth
Hegseth earned a Bronze Star in Iraq and in Afghanistan but that wasn’t off limits to the Washington Post in its latest hit piece.
Former Concerned Veterans for America executive director Mark Lucas, who replaced Hegseth as the head of the group, told the Washington Times the attacks on Hegseth’s Bronze Stars were hogwash.
“He was kicking in doors. He was in some serious combat,” Lucas said. “There are guys who got [military decorations] like candy, but Pete Hegseth was not one of those guys.”
Lucas dismissed the smear campaign against Hegseth as something he never saw during the more than a decade he’s known him.
“Everything they’re telling me doesn’t correspond with my time with Pete,” Lucas stated. “I’ve been in social settings with him and wasn’t like that. I’ve been in professional settings with him and he wasn’t like that.”
The media is taking the politics of personal destruction to a new low by attacking Pete Hegseth’s service to his country.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
