Must Pete Hegseth Be Investigated Now?
Dispatches of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. Because silence is not an option. We may read and write alone, but we drive change together. Must Pete Hegseth Be Investigated Now? A Saturday Prompt Steven Beschloss Nov 29 Pete Hegseth telling military leaders how to behave in September. (Photo by Andrew Harnik via Getty Images) It’s hard not to become desensitized to the near-constant violent extremism of Donald Trump and his sycophants. But after six lawmakers (all veterans) shot a video reminding members of the military of their duty to refuse illegal orders, the response from Trump and his belligerent “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth was unusually over-the-top, even by their cruel, deranged standards. These elected officials’ speaking out was “punishable by death,” Trump said, even by hanging. One of their number, Mark Kelly, the decorated Navy veteran, NASA astronaut and Arizona senator, must be investigated and possibly court-martialed, He...