So Whiskey Pete has been illegally wiretapping people. White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims Exclusive: Trump advisers lose confidence in Pentagon leak investigation Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/hegseth-pentagon-leak-investigation-wiretap
Pentagon Releases Epic New Ad Titled ‘Peace Through Strength’ https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/wa...ible-new-ad-featuring-trump-pete-hegseth-cmc/ The Department of Defense on Saturday released a breathtaking new ad that touts the end of wokeness in the U.S. military and the return of merit-based approaches in order to attain President Donald Trump’s “peace through strength” goals. In a stark contrast from some infamous ads released during the Biden presidency — one of which told the story of a lesbian couple’s wedding — the new promotion features U.S. service members taking part in intense training exercises and battlefield combat. It also features dramatic music over narrations from President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. “No more distraction, no more electric tanks, no more gender confusion, no more climate change worship. We are laser-focused on our mission of warfighting,” the defense secretary declares.
Pete Hegseth’s Garbage New Press Secretary Is as Extreme as They Come Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson has troubling views when it comes to just about every topic. https://newrepublic.com/post/196011/pete-hegseth-press-secretary-kingsley-wilson-extremism The Pentagon’s new press secretary is a chronically online 26-year-old white nationalist who believes in the “great replacement” theory, thinks Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy is an “entitled midget,” and pushed an antisemitic conspiracy theory about Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was lynched after being falsely accused of murder in 1915. Kingsley Wilson, who has served as deputy press secretary since January, is the daughter of right-wing talking head and former Trump adviser Steve Cortes and previously worked for Center for Renewing America, a think tank founded by Project 2025 architect Russel Vought. She will now act as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s primary mouthpiece at the Pentagon, a department that has not had regular press briefings for some time now. “The Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs is announcing that Kingsley Wilson will serve as Press Secretary for the Department of Defense,” senior Defense Department adviser Sean Parnell wrote on X last week. “Kingsley’s leadership has been integral to the DOD’s success & we look forward to her continued service to President Trump!” Wilson’s personal X page is a treasure trove of ultraright-wing content. “Minneapolis became Mogadishu in 10 years time,” she said over a video of Muslim Representative Ilhan Omar at a rally in her district. “The Great Replacement isn’t a conspiracy theory … it’s reality.” She has posted about the great replacement therory—a racist conspiracy theory that alleges there is a coordinated plot to decrease America’s white population through immigration, in some iterations at the behest of Jewish leaders—incessantly for the pastthree years. She said, “I hate this entitled midget,” in response to Zelenskiy receiving military aid from the U.S last year, and lauded Russian President Vladimir Putin for having “encyclopedic knowledge of his people’s history,” which she called “beyond impressive … especially when contrasted with the low-IQ lunatics working at the U.S. State Department.” “Leo Frank raped & murdered a 13-year-old girl. He also tried to frame a Black man for his crime,” she wrote on X. “The ADL turned off the comments because they want to gaslight you.” The ADL stated that they were “deeply disturbed” by Wilson’s comments. While troubling, this is a predictable pick, as Trump has lined his highest ranks with fringe MAGA loyalists with often openly racist politics, like State Department official Darren Beattie and National Counterterrorism Center head Joe Kent. They, like Wilson, are anti-neocons who subscribe to the same far-right, deep-MAGA views as figures like Steve Bannon and Peter Thiel, rather than the more conventional conservatism of the GOP.