MAGA Dope Pete Hegseth Accidentally Reveals the Trump Cult’s Dark Side

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

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Summary

President Donald Trump and his top advisers have worked themselves up into a fury about the leaked intelligence assessment casting doubt on the success of Trump’s bombing of Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unleashed a wild, angry rant about it during a presser with Trump, viciously attacking intelligence officials for leaking the assessment. What Hegseth ended up revealing, however, is that we almost certainly cannot count on this administration to officially tell the truth about the Iran mission, because as Hegseth demonstrated, everything must always must serve the cult of Trump above all else. We talked to veteran national security lawyer Bradley Moss, who explains why this assessment is so important, what likely went into it, how the Hegseth-Trump-MAGA propaganda campaign is taking us to a very dangerous place as a country, and what to expect next. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:32.0	President Donald Trump and his top advisors have worked themselves up into a pathological fury about the leaked intelligent assessment that casts doubt on the success of Trump's
0:36.5	bombing of Iran, a story that is consumed
0:39.5	Washington. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ranted wildly about it during a press conference with
0:45.7	Trump at the NATO summit, and White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt went full North Korea in praise
0:52.2	of Trump with one of her most absurdly obsequious performances yet. Both of them went full North Korea in praise of Trump with one of her most absurdly obsequious performances yet.
0:56.9	Both of them went full throttle in attacking intelligence officials for leaking the assessment.
1:02.5	All of which raises a question, will this administration ever officially tell the truth about the
1:08.2	Iran mission, given that everything always must serve the
1:11.9	cult of Trump above all else? Today we're trying to unravel all this with someone who lives
1:17.0	deep in the bells of the deep state and can explain it really well, veteran national security
1:22.0	lawyer Bradley Moss. Thanks for coming on, Brad. Absolutely. Any time, Greg.
1:32.7	So the New York Times, CNN, and others have all reported that this report is from the Defense Intelligence Agency. It's classified, and it found that after all that bombing, Iran's
1:37.8	nuclear program has only been delayed a few months. It also said much of Iran's enriched uranium
1:43.2	was moved to secret locations.
1:45.7	Brad, briefly, what is the DIA and why as a rapport like this from the DIA so important and what
1:51.4	should we think about it? Sure. So the DIA or the Defense Intelligence Agency is basically the
1:57.2	military's version of the CIA. It's the red-headed stepchild. It has fewer resources
2:03.6	than CIA. It's less glamorous in its mission operations than CIA. But it serves that role for the
2:12.5	Defense Department in a way matter distinct from what CIA does. And the role they particularly
2:17.1	had here was to compile
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