You know what screams guilt? Calling something fake news, then admitting it happened, then claiming you weren’t there when it happened, then saying actually, you totally support it and would do it again. In fact, if this weren’t 2025 and politics hadn’t turned into a circus where the person who screams the loudest comes out on top, we’d be inclined to just call this textbook behavior for someone workshopping different versions of a story to find one that doesn’t sound like a confession.
With the walls closing in and GOP support diminishing by the day, Pete Hegseth is growing frantic and constantly changing his account of the September 2 attack. Making an appearance at the Reagan National Defense Forum, he delivered a speech that sounded very much like a victory lap for someone who hasn’t actually won anything yet, and then went on to defend the decision to destroy the alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean.
