Media Frenzy Over Hegseth Exposed as Another Political Operation

‘And for their next act? – They want him tried for war crimes …They intend to prosecute another political opponent,’ said Sen. Schmitt.

Garbage in, garbage out. 

GIGO, as computer geeks commonly call it, is the principle that if a system receives inadequate or bad data, the results will surely be flawed. 

Same goes with news reporting. 

The garbage leaks that went into the Washington Post’s latest “Get Trump” hoax was so bad that even the Trump Derangement Syndrome-suffering New York Times could smell the stink. As my colleague Brianna Lyman wrote this week, the Post’s Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima claimed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “gave a spoken directive” to “kill everybody” after a Sept. 2 strike left two smugglers “clinging to the smoldering wreck.” As the Post is wont to do, the reporters cited two unnamed sources, “two people familiar with the matter.” 

Nope, the New York Times later reported in debunking the Post’s piece. Hegseth, the four reporters on the story wrote, “ordered a strike that would kill the people on the boat and destroy the vessel and its purported cargo of drugs.” Admiral Frank M. Bradley ordered the “several follow-up strikes that killed the initial survivors and sank the disabled boat.”

Hegseth “did not give any further orders to him,” several anonymous sources told the Times. 

‘It’s Not Surprising’

The secretary called the Post story “fabricated” and more “fake news” from the same newspaper that has made a habit of pushing political hoaxes and doing the dirty work of the Democratic Party. 

As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland.

As we’ve said from the beginning, and in every statement, these highly effective strikes are specifically…

— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) November 28, 2025