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The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast

PETE’S DEFENSE

The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.46.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dinesh shows why Pete Hegseth is making an excellent defense, making it very likely he’ll be confirmed.  Dinesh also considers the prospects of other cabinet nominees.  Political scientist Carol Swain joins Dinesh to talk about her new book about academic plagiarism and DEI, “The Gay Affair.”

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0:00.0

Coming up, the Trump cabinet nominations, one by one are facing the Senate. I'll talk about Pete

0:07.3

Hegset. I'll also mention Marco Rubio and Pam Bondi. Political scientist Carol Swain joins me.

0:14.0

We're going to talk about her new book about academic plagiarism and DEI. It has a hilarious

0:17.7

title. It's called The Gay Affair.

0:26.5

Hey, if you're watching on Rumble or YouTube, listening on Apple, Google, or Spotify, please subscribe to my channel.

0:28.7

Hit the follow or the subscribe button.

0:29.7

It's really helpful to me.

0:32.2

In fact, helps the podcast get out to more people.

0:45.2

This is the Dinesh DeSuza podcast. America needs this voice.

0:47.8

The times are crazy and a time of confusion, division, and lies.

0:52.0

We need a brave voice of reason, understanding, and truth. This is the

0:57.0

Dinesh D'Souza podcast. The Trump cabinet confirmations are in full swing. Pete Hegset, who went up first, is done. And I normally don't like to make

1:16.1

predictions. I'm not in the prediction business. I try to do more analysis rather than predictions.

1:23.7

But nevertheless, I think that it's fair to say that this guy is going to go through.

1:30.3

It's possible that he might lose a single Republican vote.

1:35.6

I don't think he will.

1:36.5

I think he's going to get all 53.

1:38.6

I wouldn't even be surprised if he gets Federman, which would give him 54.

1:43.0

And it's probably going to be 54 votes for Pete

1:47.1

Hegset. And I got to say, Hegset did extremely well. Some of his memorable statements,

1:55.2

I'm going to quote a couple of them that jump out at me. Here's one. We won World War II with

2:00.2

seven four-star generals. Today we have

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