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Behind the Bastards

Part One: Pete Hegseth's Fascist Book 'American Crusade'

Behind the Bastards

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News, History, Society & Culture

4.415.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to talk about Pete Hegseth's life, times and horrible 2020 book.

Sources:

Pete Hegseth: Police report lays out details, timeline of sexual assault allegation : NPR

Pete Hegseth paid $50,000 to a woman alleging 2017 sexual assault | CNN Politics

Pete Hegseth’s Secret History | The New Yorker

Scholars Say White Supremacists Chanting 'Deus Vult' Got History Wrong : NPR

Historian: Crusader motto "Deus vult" is a myth - english.katholisch.de

Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post

"Five Ways Christian Families Are Under Attack" Pastor Chris Durkin

The Crusades, the first holy war | Submission.org - Your best source for Submission (Islam)

These brave Afghans helped the U.S. after 9/11. Now the U.S. wants to deport them.

Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post

An Appointment in Samarra | National Review

Republican Hegseth is out of U.S. Senate race. For good.

Pete Hegseth and His ‘Battle Cry’ for a New Christian Crusade - The New York Times                                                                                                                                                       

Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth’s books foreground anti-Muslim rhetoric | Trump administration | The Guardian

Pete Hegseth: Faith, Family, Freedom, and the American Mind | Nashville Christian Family Magazine

What the firestorm over Rep. Omar’s remarks says about anti-Semitism in America | PBS News

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0:00.0

Coalzo Media

0:02.9

Ah!

0:06.5

Ah!

0:09.6

Thanks for coming in with me on that one, Jamie.

0:12.3

That was really helpful.

0:13.3

I think we really, I think we knocked it out of the park.

0:15.6

Yeah, that wouldn't have worked without you, you know.

0:18.1

Just one person kind of atonally going, ah, nothing.

0:21.6

Yeah.

0:19.0

One of you was great. One of us is great. And you know what's not great? Sophie has a dying squirrel on her property. We're going to not. This is like ruined my entire day. No, it's canon. I know. I know. It's canon now, Sophie. It's canon. Do you want to give it a name so it feels worse?

0:20.5

Jane, no.

0:21.3

I'm sorry.

0:38.5

I'm sorry. I know, I know. It's canon now, Sophie. It's canon. Do you want to give it a name so it feels worse?

0:43.7

Yeah. No. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. How about Elizabeth? Elizabeth the squirrel.

0:47.3

Oh, no. Lizzie. The terminally ill squirrel.

0:53.0

Look me. I'm not 100% sure he's dying, but he's definitely not moving very much.

0:55.2

Yeah, that's usually not a good sign for something like a squirrel. Elizabeth has a lot of unfinished business. This is really sad. Yeah, she didn't

1:00.5

get her will prepared. Robert, I just need you to come over here and do the humane thing because

1:06.4

I'm a wolf. You mean kill it with a rock? Allegedly.

1:11.1

Yeah.

1:14.6

I mean, I don't know what else to do with, you know, suffering little animals.

1:18.9

But yeah, when I lived in the middle of nowhere, there would be lots of dead animals or dying animals by the side of the road when I was on my runs.

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