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Trump Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth is shoring up support from Republican senators amid a concerted smear campaign against him based on years-old allegations from anonymous sources funneled through establishment media outlets.

MAGA world and dozens of other supporters who know him personally are coming out in force to support President-elect Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth.

President-elect Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth is fighting back against a seemingly coordinated media attack driven by anonymous smears in an attempt to take down his nomination to lead the government’s largest agency.

Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth said Wednesday — amid rumors that President-elect Donald Trump would replace him with Gov. Ron DeSantis — that he spoke directly to Trump and has his support.

The establishment media are at it again, now openly attacking President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks with salacious and unverified misinformation in an apparent campaign they are waging to try to sink the president-elect’s incoming administration.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) admitted that Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk was “right” about cutting government spending, referencing the Department of Defense’s budget and how it had “failed its 7th audit.”

After President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory, the mainstream media have turned their attention toward trying to take down his cabinet picks, recently focusing their sights on Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.

New York Times reporter Sharon LaFraniere on Friday published a hit piece on President-Elect Donald Trump’s Pentagon Chief nominee Pete Hegseth based on an emotional private email his mother sent him that she told him afterwards she did not mean and regretted sending.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) reacted to a report that President-Elect Donald Trump is considering financiers for top positions within the Department of Defense by stating that the

On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that he believes there can be bipartisan support in Congress if the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) says “there needs to be more open competition, not the monopolization in defense contractors,

A community of military veterans who fought against initiatives from the Biden administration they deemed unconstitutional have put together a list of 18 names they would like to see appointed to positions in the incoming Trump administration to help President-elect Donald Trump implement reform in the Pentagon or other agencies.

The Trump transition team shot down a report from a British newspaper claiming that President-elect Donald Trump is planning an executive order that would remove all transgender troops from the military and prevent transgender people from joining the military.

A police report from 2017 released this week via a freedom of information request casts major doubt on a sexual assault allegation made against President-Elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth.

Ukraine says the “experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile” fired at them carried 36 “submunitions” and was travelling at Mach 11.

Republican senators expressed confidence in Pete Hegseth as the incoming Trump administration’s defense secretary after meeting with him on Thursday.

Two far-left, pro-Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) veterans are behind allegations that Trump defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s tattoos are tied to white supremacy, according to public reports and information.

America needs to be rebuilt “piece by piece” after four years of chaos, according to Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, who vowed to act as a “sledgehammer” for President-elect Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda, shaping confirmations and holding Republicans accountable in the next Congress.

The Pentagon failed its seventh audit in a row, failing to account for its more than $824 billion budget in 2024, the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General announced on Friday.

Tim Parlatore, lawyer for Trump Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth, said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News that sexual assault allegations from seven years ago — in 2017 — were “completely investigated” at the time and that he is “completely and totally innocent.”

The Pentagon is in “absolute disarray” with “generals scrambling” over the incoming Trump administration’s plans to fire woke senior military leaders who prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over combat readiness, according to sources.

In a significant policy shift, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has announced that it will permit U.S. government agencies and contractors working on national security to utilize its AI models for military applications.

Active-duty U.S. service members are complaining that the Pentagon has not given them enough absentee ballots to vote in time for Election Day, prompting three Republican congressmen to demand answers from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

Ariane Tabatabai, an official who has drawn public scrutiny due to her apparent links to the Iranian regime, has reportedly been reassigned following months of inquiries and complaints by Republican members of Congress.

A group of about two hundred North Korean defectors is asking to be deployed in Ukraine so they can help with demoralizing and influencing the roughly 12,000 North Korean troops allegedly dispatched to fight for Russia, a report revealed on Monday.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte NATO confirmed recent reports that some North Korean military units were already in the Kursk region.

Sen. Joni Ernst sent a letter to the Pentagon demanding an explanation for the delivery of moldy equipment to Taiwan.

The U.S. military seeks to develop advanced AI capable of generating fake online personas that are indistinguishable from real people, according to a procurement document recently reviewed by the Intercept.

The Pentagon said on Thursday that U.S. forces played no role in the Israeli ground operation in Rafah that killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh on Wednesday dismissed the advanced missile defense system the United States is deploying in Israel as “psychological warfare” that would do little to enhance Israel’s defense against Iranian missiles.

The Pentagon announced on Sunday that it would deploy a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery for missile defense to Israel in response to incessant threats from Iran.

Anti-Woke Caucus Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) rebuked the Biden-Harris administration’s Navy Secretary Carlos del Toro for violating the Hatch Act and lowering standards for recruits, in a letter first obtained by Breitbart News.

Combined U.S. military forces are being rushed to the Middle East to deter an Iranian response in the wake of Israel’s enhanced air campaign against Hezbollah and the start of a ground operation in southern Lebanon to remove terrorist outposts that threaten Israeli communities, U.S. and Israeli officials said Monday.

Vice President Kamala Harris is considering keeping on some of President Joe Biden’s cabinet members if she wins the election, a report said.

Australia and New Zealand are looking for an explanation from China on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) for its unusual test-launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday.

An “excited” Jill Biden took it upon herself to announce Monday night the Pentagon is committing more than $500 million annually for research into women’s health.

Additional U.S. troops are being rushed to the Middle East during a rise in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah terrorist forces in Lebanon that has elevated risks of a wider regional war, the Pentagon said Monday.