MaddowBlog-Pete Hegseth reportedly has an 'unusually large' security detail, generating pushback

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3. 'Scum': Trump's Pentagon melts down over 'astonishing' Hegseth ​report

Hegseth and his goons are upset at the reports of his security detail.

'Scum': Trump's Pentagon melts down over 'astonishing' Hegseth ​report

— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2025-08-20T22:45:29.000Z

https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2673906168/

Pentagon officials fumed on Wednesday after The Washington Post reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's "unusually large" security requirements are straining the agency.

The Post investigation found that Hegseth relies on an "unusually large" and expensive personal security detail, which significantly strained the U.S. Army agency responsible for his protection. The operation has required the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, or CID, to reassign agents away from core criminal investigations to provide security for him and monitor his homes in Minnesota, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C.

The operation costs millions of dollars, with the article estimating the number of agents assigned to senior defense officials has grown from around 150 to as high as 400 to 500.....

"How do these reporters sleep at night? @PeteHegseth is not only the Secretary of Defense but a father. This article, in addition to being false, puts him and all of his children at risk," Department of Defense assistant press secretary Riley Podleski wrote on X.

Fellow Department of Defense assistant press secretary Jacob Bliss, meanwhile, wrote, "The scum at the Washington Post published details about @SecDef’s security in the name of ‘journalism.’ They aren’t holding anyone accountable — they’re putting numerous lives and families at risk."