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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🗓️ 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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| 0:00.0 | 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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