Hegseth F*cks the Troops on Signal

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

4.7 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this week's episode of The Elephant in the Room, Rick addresses Pete Hegseth's ignorant, cavalier, and callous actions by taking communications about military special operations to a F*CKING Signal group chat. ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ Follow Rick Wilson at @TheRickWilson on X and subscribe to his Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. Join the fight with Lincoln Project at www.lincolnproject.us and follow us on X at @ProjectLincoln. If you'd like to help us continue this critical work, visit https://action.lincolnproject.us/helplp to make a difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.2	Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt.
0:35.9	There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.
0:39.3	There is the United States of America.
0:42.3	Good night and good luck.
0:46.3	Folks, I know you know this was going to be a simple elephant in the room this week.
0:50.3	It's inevitable that it would be this.
0:52.3	It is that Pete Hexeth has fucked America's
0:56.0	troops on Signal.
1:02.5	And, you know, the Republicans like to pretend that they have an exclusive and complete
1:07.9	and eternal domination of the issue of who loves the military, who cares about our men and women in uniform.
1:15.8	I mean, they would prefer no women in uniform, but that's another story for another day.
1:19.8	They want to play this game all the time.
1:22.0	We see it a lot.
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