Pete Hegseth just faced one of the most revealing moments of his tenure — and it did not go well. At the Reagan National Defense Forum, Trump’s “War” Secretary was pressed on the September 2 strike, the missing video, and a new Inspector General report showing he put U.S. troops at risk by using his personal Signal chats for sensitive planning.
What happened on that stage — the evasions, the contradictions, the religious appeals — paints a much clearer picture of why this scandal is accelerating. We’ll break it all down below.
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