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highplainsdem

(61,119 posts) Mon Mar 24, 2025, 07:49 PM Mar 2025

Hegseth calls The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg "a deceitful & highly discredited so-called journalist" who peddles hoaxes [View all]

Acyn post with video on Bluesky:

Reporter: Can you share how your information about war plans was shared with a journalist?

Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-03-24T23:13:45.529Z

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Hegseth calls The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg "a deceitful & highly discredited so-called journalist" who peddles hoaxes [View all] highplainsdem Mar 2025 OP

Hoaxes my ass! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #1

Their usual smear of the media. And none of those were hoaxes. highplainsdem Mar 2025 #21

And after tsf's mouthpiece was shrieking about lie detectors to find leakers? SheltieLover Mar 2025 #31

Of course he did. Srkdqltr Mar 2025 #2

Surely Goldberg senseandsensibility Mar 2025 #3

Goldberg has the receipts. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #29

Thanks hegseth BOSSHOG Mar 2025 #4

The Pisswig dweller Mar 2025 #5

Notice - he never once denied the accuracy of THIS article, Ms. Toad Mar 2025 #6

I read that he did. yardwork Mar 2025 #9

I listened to it twice before I commented - Ms. Toad Mar 2025 #13

He did a bit later. Another Acyn post with video on Bluesky: highplainsdem Mar 2025 #14

Thanks for a specific post to additional information. Ms. Toad Mar 2025 #15

I understand. Texas Towelie posted a CBS story an hour ago with the denial as the headline, which is highplainsdem Mar 2025 #16

Could be. Ms. Toad Mar 2025 #22

FelonTraitorTrump Miami Blue Mar 2025 #7

He and Trump are Disaffected Mar 2025 #8

Hegseth is a total dangerous idiot! Canada Kid Mar 2025 #10

Go home Pete, boonecreek Mar 2025 #11

I didn't see anything shokcing ForgedCrank Mar 2025 #12

Reason you saw nothing shokcing: dpibel Mar 2025 #17

So this is tRump's new national security gold standard, is it? Blue Owl Mar 2025 #18

right? Skittles Mar 2025 #20

haha, he doth protest too much Skittles Mar 2025 #19

Hegseth.... NA GA!!!* electric_blue68 Mar 2025 #23

Slander. moondust Mar 2025 #24

But he was sober as a JUG! tavernier Mar 2025 #25

On something like this, the first thing you would expect is for him to act like an adult. everyonematters Mar 2025 #26

He would have done better to make no comment. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #30

Exactly what we might have expected from DUI hire Hogsbreath. Ocelot II Mar 2025 #27

All these MAGAts MorbidButterflyTat Mar 2025 #28

which essentially...... Skittles Mar 2025 #35

Snort. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #32

Could somebody call a cab for the secretary? Buns_of_Fire Mar 2025 #33

GOLDBERG to HEGSETH: "I know *you* are, but what am *I*?" UTUSN Mar 2025 #34