Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s secretary of defense pick, was confirmed on Friday by a Senate vote of 51-50. But in the weeks leading up to his confirmation, he faced a smear campaign peddled by a propaganda press eager to undermine and distract from his qualifications for the role.
Yet another attempt to drag Hegseth’s name through the mud came the morning before the Senate vote when The Guardian decided to play the role of theological scholar under the misleadingly doomerist headline: “Revealed: Trump Pentagon nominee endorsed extremist Christian doctrine on podcast.”
In the article, The Guardian’s Jason Wilson claims that in “recordings” — which were, as Wilson himself notes, published almost a year ago — “Hegseth rails against ‘cultural Marxism,’ feminism, ‘critical race theory,’ and even democracy itself.” Wilson also…
