I’m really delighted that President Trump has nominated Pete hangseth to be Secretary of Defense. I know Pete pretty well. I worked with him when he was in charge of veterans organizations. I worked with him at Fox. I know that he’s very smart, very patriotic and very tough. He was a combat soldier. He has, as he put it, mud on his boots. And I think it’s time we had somebody in charge of the Defense Department who focused on winning wars, on lethality, on being effective. You know, the Pentagon is an enormous institution. It spends over $900 billion a year, and like all good bureaucracies, it has grown deeper and deeper and deeper in paperwork and regulations and in bureaucrats who don’t have much to do. So they write each other and remind each other of nonsense. I’ve always told people that the Pentagon, which was built in 1943 had 26,000 people in order to manage World War Two, they were using manual typewriters, carbon paper and filing cabins. Today we have smartphones, iPads, laptops and 26,000 people, and since all of those are dramatically more effective at communicating than carbon paper and typewriters. You have to ask yourself, why do we have 26,000 people? Because frankly, most of them spend their time writing messages to each other to prove they’re useful, they slow down the Defense Department. We can’t move at the speed of technology. We can’t innovate, and this is very dangerous when you’re competing with China, North Korea, Iran and Russia. So we need a complete deep overhaul, and we need a focus on winning wars. I think it’s very important to recognize we just fought a war in Afghanistan for 23 years. We lost 1000s of young Americans. We had many 1000 more wounded. We spent trillions of dollars and we failed to win. Now that should lead to a deep overhaul of our own systems, an honesty to look at history and say what went wrong and what do we have to do differently. That’s the setting in which I think President Trump decided to go for somebody bold outside the system, willing to take on everything, somebody who wasn’t trapped in the patterns, the habits, the bureaucracy of the past. I think Pete hegseth is going to be a very exciting Secretary of Defense, a very pro military, pro working soldier, sailor and marine, he’s going to be committed to getting them the best equipment, the best training, the best opportunity. And I’ll bet you, by summer, all of our recruiting problems will have disappeared. We’ll be back to creating a fighting force and will attract the kind of people who want to defend America. I think this is very, very important. I think it may be the most important single nomination that President Trump has made.
Pete Hegseth is the right man to lead Department of Defense
By Straight Arrow News
A week after testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, President Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, is facing new assault allegations as his nomination moves to the full Senate for a vote. Hegseth’s former sister-in-law has accused him of violent and erratic behavior, while his ex-wife has denied the allegations.
Hegseth’s nomination has been controversial, with numerous allegations of sexual, workplace and financial misconduct. Democrats also expressed serious concerns about his lack of experience and sharp partisanship. He has been a commentator for Fox News since 2014. President Trump, on the other hand, has strongly backed Hegseth, recently praising him during his remarks at the Commander in Chief inaugural ball.
Watch the video above, where Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich praises Hegseth’s background, calling him smart, patriotic and tough, and explains why he believes it is important for Congress to confirm his nomination.
The following is an excerpt from the above video:
That’s the setting in which I think President Trump decided to go for somebody bold, outside the system, willing to take on everything, somebody who wasn’t trapped in the patterns, the habits, the bureaucracy of the past. I think Pete Hegseth is going to be a very exciting Secretary of Defense, a very pro-military, pro-working soldier, sailor and marine. He’s going to be committed to getting them the best equipment, the best training, the best opportunity. And I’ll bet you, by summer, all of our recruiting problems will have disappeared. We’ll be back to creating a fighting force and will attract the kind of people who want to defend America.
I think this is very, very important. I think it may be the most important single nomination that President Trump has made.
I’m really delighted that President Trump has nominated Pete hangseth to be Secretary of Defense. I know Pete pretty well. I worked with him when he was in charge of veterans organizations. I worked with him at Fox. I know that he’s very smart, very patriotic and very tough. He was a combat soldier. He has, as he put it, mud on his boots. And I think it’s time we had somebody in charge of the Defense Department who focused on winning wars, on lethality, on being effective. You know, the Pentagon is an enormous institution. It spends over $900 billion a year, and like all good bureaucracies, it has grown deeper and deeper and deeper in paperwork and regulations and in bureaucrats who don’t have much to do. So they write each other and remind each other of nonsense. I’ve always told people that the Pentagon, which was built in 1943 had 26,000 people in order to manage World War Two, they were using manual typewriters, carbon paper and filing cabins. Today we have smartphones, iPads, laptops and 26,000 people, and since all of those are dramatically more effective at communicating than carbon paper and typewriters. You have to ask yourself, why do we have 26,000 people? Because frankly, most of them spend their time writing messages to each other to prove they’re useful, they slow down the Defense Department. We can’t move at the speed of technology. We can’t innovate, and this is very dangerous when you’re competing with China, North Korea, Iran and Russia. So we need a complete deep overhaul, and we need a focus on winning wars. I think it’s very important to recognize we just fought a war in Afghanistan for 23 years. We lost 1000s of young Americans. We had many 1000 more wounded. We spent trillions of dollars and we failed to win. Now that should lead to a deep overhaul of our own systems, an honesty to look at history and say what went wrong and what do we have to do differently. That’s the setting in which I think President Trump decided to go for somebody bold outside the system, willing to take on everything, somebody who wasn’t trapped in the patterns, the habits, the bureaucracy of the past. I think Pete hegseth is going to be a very exciting Secretary of Defense, a very pro military, pro working soldier, sailor and marine, he’s going to be committed to getting them the best equipment, the best training, the best opportunity. And I’ll bet you, by summer, all of our recruiting problems will have disappeared. We’ll be back to creating a fighting force and will attract the kind of people who want to defend America. I think this is very, very important. I think it may be the most important single nomination that President Trump has made.
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