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… according to Trump - at least in case this goes more pearshaped from here:

President Trump indicated on Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the first top administration official to back the U.S. military attacks against Iran.

“Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up and you said let’s do it because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon,” the president said at a Memphis Safe Task Force roundtable in Tennessee.

Hegseth was sitting beside Trump at the roundtable in Memphis.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5796691-trump-h...

Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up and you said let’s do it

Looks like Peetie is being marked as the fall guy if things continue to go south in Iran.

Looks like “Peetie” is being marked as the fall guy if things continue to go south in Iran.

Another laugh for the day.
Bunch of old farts sounding silly.

I wonder if Pete will get his old gig at Faux News back.

I wonder if Pete will get his old gig at Faux News back.

Pete Hegseth took a big cut in wages for the honor of becoming our Secretary of War.
I don’t remember anyone being rehired by FoxNews once they left. Maybe FOX would consider
rehiring Pete once his job with the government ends for the fact he is so well like by the
number one network cable news audience.

“AI Overview
Yes, Pete Hegseth took a significant pay cut to become Secretary of Defense (often referred to as Secretary of War), moving from a Fox News salary of over $2 million annually to a government salary of roughly $246,000–$253,000. Financial disclosures revealed he earned nearly $6 million in the two years prior to his 2025 appointment.
Key details regarding the salary change:
Fox News Earnings: Hegseth collected $4.6 million as a host, plus hundreds of thousands more in speaking fees and book royalties between 2023 and 2024.”

“FOX NEWS CHANNEL SHATTERS RATINGS RECORDS MARKING 24 CONSECUTIVE YEARS AS THE NUMBER ONE NETWORK IN CABLE NEWS”

https://press.foxnews.com/2026/01/fox-news-channel...

And now we find out that Rupert Murdoch was also advising Trump to attack Iran.

Good for his businesses?

Looks like Peetie is being marked as the fall guy if things continue to go south in Iran.

Exactly my thought. On the odd chance that propaganda actually makes this fiasco popular, then Trump the Conqueror will claim it was all him, all the time, again, because MAGA has the memory of a gnat.

Steve

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