Hegseth is the new US Secretary of State for Defense
They have a lot in common, Pete Hegseth and Jack Posobiec. So much so that they already travel together in representation of the US state.
They were, and are still traveling around Europe: Germany, Belgium and Poland.
Hegseth is the secretary of Trump’s defense. Posobiec has no position in the Trumpist Administration, but is a fervent supporter of the president, a known far -right activist – such as Hegseth, by the way – by controversial statements, proliferation of conspiracy theories and internet disinformation sharing. Before this (“worrying”, they guarantee in the Pentagon) trip to Europe by Pete Hegseth and Jack Posobiec, let’s talk about who is who and what unites them.
Posobiec, 40, had for years as a profession to be an official of the Navy. This is not your breadwinner. Today is podcasterwith millions of followers, and presents itself as a “senior editor” of Human Events, a conservative website that houses the podcast, extremist rhetorical sharing and promotes conspiracy theories.
One of the theories in which Posobiec was perhaps more fervent is the “pizzagate”, which claimed that Democrats (and Hillary Clinton in particular, ran the 2016 presidential year) drove a satanic network of children’s abuse – focusing on a small pizzeria in Washington . Posobiec is also an advocate of the invasion of the 2021 capitol – or at least he is advocate of the invaders.
In 2024, speaking at the conference of conservative political action on the outskirts of Washington, Posobiec’s statements generated controversy when he said that: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We could not achieve that goal totally [a 6 de janeiro de 2021]But we will continue to try to get rid of it. “
As almost always in an extremist rhetoric, there was said that he was not said, stating that it was a “satire” to the “lack of democratic value” in the administration of President Biden.
Pete Hegseth, the current secretary of defense, is practically the same age as Posobiec, 44, also has a “military” past, was an official of the National Guard, but where he made a career was a preservative Fox News station host. There, one of his controversies was to denigrate a channel colleague, Jennifer Griffin, who nicknamed “Democrat” who “doesn’t” President Trump.
Despite coming from a traditional so -called television station, Hegseth has attacked the so -called “traditional media”, being a defender in this Donald Trump administration of the “rotation program” that intends to “more access” to other means, which would even lead The exclusion of the Associated Press to participate in events in the White House -in question is the agency’s refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” -opening the door to the “new voices” in communication. These new voices include much more conservative means, such as Newsmax and Breitbart – Steve Bannon’s sites -, present on Pete Hegseth and Jack Posobiec’s trip to Europe.
Hegseth’s displeasure by traditional “media” will have recently aggravated when his Senate confirmation process. Hegseth expressed frustration for extensive media coverage about problems with alcohol and marital infidelity, claiming that news was based on “anonymous slander.”
Addressed the past controversies of Pete Hegseth and Jack Posobiec, behold, a new one comes from their trip to Europe – the first of the Secretary of Defense, it is said, but not from the podcasterwho recently accompanied the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Ukraine – and even met with Zelensky.
Hegseth’s invitation to Posobiec will have generated “concern” among the high -over -the -art person, “afraid that the military will be dragged into a party political war.” , at the end of last week, citing anonymous sources of the institution, traditionally nonpartisan.
As this newspaper says, “Pentagon’s invitation to Posobiec comes at a time when Trump administration signals the intention to use the Armed Forces in unconventional ways in the American territory,” says the Washington Post to the sending of hundreds of Soldiers and Marines to the Southern US Border and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, fulfilling Trump’s promise in a campaign to wage new immigration and, at the same time, deport illegal immigrants already present in the country.
Regarding Posobiec’s previous trip, in the case to Ukraine, with Scott Bessent -who went there to ensure an agreement to extract Ukrainian minerals in exchange for the US military assistance -it was not, of course, without controversial statements. And disdain of the statements.
First, he wrote on Twitter that the Secretary of Defense did something “historical” on the trip to Kiev, saying “difficult truths” to Volodymyr Zelensky, such as: Ukrainians will not be able to recover the lost territory to Moscow and will never join NATO – Because it makes a peace agreement unfeasible. Then, of course, he retreated, and said that only the US president can, he does, to guarantee the viability or not of peace due to adherence to the NATO. Trump there reacted: “I don’t see this happening” – speaking of adhesion.
Posobiec’s proximity to defense is seen by an expert – precisely in defense – such as Paul Rieckhoff, former Army officer and founder of Independent Veterans of America, as “dangerous, alarming and unacceptable.” To Washington Post, Rieckhoff ends by saying that this [Posobiec na Defesa] But it is not the “calculated attempt to build an advertising machine that echoes management messages without objective journalistic coverage; They are radical propagandists – and the strategy is well defined. ”
