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Hegseth Goes Belligerent In Congress; Caught And Called Out In Iran War Lies

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Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan

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4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Pete Hegseth floundered and lied in front of congress in hearing regarding the Iran war.


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Devout Christian nationalist and alleged untreated alcoholic defense secretary, we refused to say the Department of War, out of spite, and out of respect for our country.

0:18.0

Of course, I'm talking about Pete Heggseth. He is so incompetent that he

0:22.2

publicly admitted the stated reason for the U.S. getting into the war in Iran has always been

0:29.5

a lie. Let's play the clip.

0:30.7

...underground, they're buried and watching them 24-7. So we know where any nuclear material

0:37.2

might be. We're watching my time for just a quick second here. We had to start this war, you just said,

0:43.3

60 days ago, because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying that it was

0:50.5

completely obliterated. They had not given up their nuclear ambitions. And they had a conventional shield of thousands of-

0:56.6

So Operation Midnight Hammer or a common

0:58.6

nothing of substance.

1:00.0

It left us at exactly the same place we were before.

1:05.0

So as you can see, like when these guys get out of their bubble,

1:08.6

when they get outside of these sycophantic,

1:11.6

brown-nosing board meetings with Donald Trump,

1:16.6

all of their logic, everything completely falls apart.

1:20.6

Here's the thing with Pete Hexeth.

1:23.6

He is unqualified to run a nonprofit as he has run to and to the ground. He is

1:28.7

unqualified to run the Department of Defense because he wants to call it the Department of

1:33.6

War. And in a time of war that's costing billions and billions of dollars every day,

1:38.7

he wants to legally change the name to the Department of War. This is not a serious person. This is a person that loves to watch people die.

1:50.0

He has no ability to demonstrate and articulate what the goals of this war are because there are not other than him to feel like he's a big, strong, powerful guy for the first time in his pathetic

2:04.2

life.

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