Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, thwarted what appeared to be, at worst, a political hit job and, at best, a shocking display of incompetence by the U.S. Military Academy earlier this week. He posted on his X account about having knowledge of a story that was going to be released by ProPublica, claiming that the former Fox News co-host was never offered admission to West Point. To preemptively refute the story, he showed a copy of his 1999 acceptance letter from West Point.
“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,” Hegseth posted. “Here’s my letter of acceptance signed by West Point Superintendent, Lieutenant General Daniel Christman, U.S. Army.”
Hegseth wound up attending Princeton University instead, graduating…
