Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first impulse following the revelation that The Atlantic’s editor in chief was included on a private text thread in which cabinet-level officers conducted sensitive deliberations regarding imminent U.S. military action overseas was to obfuscate.
“You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again,” Hegseth said yesterday. “This is a guy that peddles in garbage. It’s what he does.”
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