ProPublica’s botched Pete Hegseth smear proves the need to purge the military of partisanship

A botched smear of Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth just further exposed the rank partisanship in both the military and the media.

And showed exactly why President-elect Donald Trump needs a reformer like Hegseth running the Pentagon.

On X Wednesday, Hegseth flagged an in-the-works hit piece, saying: “We understand that ProPublica (the Left Wing hack group) is planning to publish a knowingly false report that I was not accepted to West Point in 1999.”

To kibosh any doubt, he included a photo of his acceptance letter from then-West Point Superintendent, Lt.-Gen. Daniel Christman.

ProPublica senior editor Jesse Eisinger answered with telling haughty self-importance: “We asked West Pt public affairs, which told us twice on the record that he hadn’t even applied there. We reached out. Hegseth’s spox gave us his acceptance letter. We didn’t publish a story. That’s journalism.”

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