That’s why Hegseth’s nomination is a hill Trump should die on. If a handful of Senate Republicans can sink Hegseth, they will spend the next four years undermining and obstructing Trump’s entire agenda. Trump needs to send them a message that such obstruction won’t be tolerated in his second term. Now is the time for the president-elect to make them understand that if they oppose his nominees, they’ll be putting their political careers in jeopardy.
Republican senators like Joni Ernst of Iowa and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who purport to be concerned about Hegseth because of alleged wrongdoing in his past, are just being dishonest. Their real objection is not with Hegseth but with Trump’s plans and his policies, especially his foreign policy.
Last week, Ernst waged a personal jihad to sink Hegseth’s nomination. As my colleague Shawn Fleetwood reported here at The Federalist, the Iowa senator repeatedly called Trump urging him to dump Hegseth, while at the same time surrogates, including Graham, were urging Trump to nominate Ernst instead. Both Ernst and Graham have expressed concern over a series of unsubstantiated allegations against Hegseth, of wrongdoing during his time working at Fox News and also while leading veteran-related nonprofit organizations. Hegseth has denied the allegations, and numerous colleagues of his have come forward to dispute the anonymous accusations.
All of it amounts to an effort to do to Hegseth what Democrats and the media did to Brett Kavanaugh when Trump nominated him to the Supreme Court in 2018. Like the accusations against Kavanaugh, the accusations against Hegseth aren’t serious or remotely believable. The only reason anyone would take them seriously is if they had other reasons for opposing his nomination, namely, that they seek to undermine Trump’s plans to reform the Defense Department and reorient America’s military posture.
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