Court Records Blow Holes In The New York Times’ Latest Anti-Hegseth Smear
The New York Times recently dropped its latest “bombshell scandal” involving President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth — and it’s about as vapid and toothless as one would expect.
“They’re desperately searching for anything to malign Pete,” Hegseth’s lawyer Tim Parlatore told The Federalist.
Published on Monday by Times lackies Dave Philipps and Sharon LaFraniere, the hit piece takes aim at Hegseth’s security guard John Jacob Hasenbein, a former Army Special Forces master sergeant. Specifically, the left-wing propagandists detailed a prior Army training incident involving Hasenbein that they ominously characterize as “a dark episode in his past.”
The matter came about during a March 2019 training simulation the Army conducted with a private contractor before Hasenbein’s unit was set to deploy overseas. The master sergeant and his team were tasked with carrying out “a hostage rescue from a terrorist cell,” and the contractor hired a civilian role player to portray “an ISIS fighter with information about a hostage whom Mr. Hasenbein’s team was supposed to free,” according to the Times.
Philipps and LaFraniere cited claims from witnesses that Hasenbein “beat” the role player — including the role player himself, who told the Times the soldiers “were supposed to ask [him] where the hostage is at … But they didn’t give [him] a chance. They just started hurting [him] bad.” (Read more from “Court Records Blow Holes In The New York Times’ Latest Anti-Hegseth Smear” HERE)
