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Democratic Candidates Have Made Hegseth the New Boogeyman
Breitbart ^ | 14 Aug 2026 | Pam Key

Posted on 08/15/2026 5:56:09 AM PDT by dennisw

Friday on MS NOW’s “On the Line,” host Alicia Menendez said Democratic candidates have made Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “the new boogeyman on the campaign trail.”

Menendez said, “Calls are growing for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to lose his job over horrific conditions facing our service members aboard the USS Lincoln. The aircraft carrier has set a modern day record for consecutive days at sea. It has been deployed for nearly nine months as part of President Trump’s war of choice with Iran. Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer says Hegseth must be fired immediately, and he is not alone. Here’s what else we’ve heard, including from Congressman and veteran Jake Auchincloss on this show just yesterday.”

On Thursday’s show, Menendez said, “You have repeatedly called on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to resign. If Democrats are to take back control of Congress, will impeachment be a priority?”

Auchincloss answered, “Yes, it should be, absolutely. We need an inquiry. We need oversight and investigations. And if the facts yield an impeachment recommendation, we need to pursue that vigorously.”

Menendez said, “You have a growing number of Democrats who are calling for Hegseth to either be fired or have raised the possibility of impeachment. At the same time, you’ve got political reporting that the Democratic candidates have made Hegseth the new boogeyman on the campaign trail. They’re planning to shift their attacks from President Trump to Hegseth.”

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1 posted on 08/15/2026 5:56:09 AM PDT by dennisw
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The aircraft carrier has set a modern day record for consecutive days at sea.

That's an impeachable offense?

2 posted on 08/15/2026 5:58:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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To: dennisw

This is absolute bullsh*t.


3 posted on 08/15/2026 6:01:11 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (B''H We are given a new day today, with new choices. Choose wisely!)
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To: dennisw

This is absolute bullsh*t. These folks are being paid by the IRGC and China.


4 posted on 08/15/2026 6:01:41 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (B''H We are given a new day today, with new choices. Choose wisely!)
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To: Eli Kopter

He’s the most Trump-like in terms of demeanor. He’d make a good successor.


5 posted on 08/15/2026 6:04:36 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: dennisw

Friday on MS NOW

Correction

Friday on pMS NOW’

Someone send them some midol


6 posted on 08/15/2026 6:06:15 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: dennisw

Since when did democrats start caring about our servicemen and women anyways?

What’s deplorable is the way those leftists treated the returning servicemen and POW’s during the Viet Nam era?

That’s what they REALLY think of them.


7 posted on 08/15/2026 6:07:52 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

President Trump has some 100% loyalists. Hegeseth, Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent, JD Vance. Karoline Leavitt who just had to leave for her two new babies.

There are others.


8 posted on 08/15/2026 6:10:01 AM PDT by dennisw ("If they make something really good, they will inevitably stop making it." - Robert Quine)
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To: dennisw

Dems hate war and the DofW, the military etc

They start all of the forever wars. But we let them pretend that’s not the case


9 posted on 08/15/2026 6:10:05 AM PDT by stanne
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To: All

Desperate Democrats grasping at straws.


10 posted on 08/15/2026 6:11:16 AM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of Hig hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: dennisw

They are very afraid of him.


11 posted on 08/15/2026 6:12:26 AM PDT by Theophilus (I'm all out of attention to this matter...)
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To: dennisw

Only Trump, cannot be bought, though. No one else MAGA has the deep pockets. I have not seen rallies like Trumps, in my lifetime.


12 posted on 08/15/2026 6:14:49 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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... We need an inquiry. We need oversight and investigations...


Ever notice how Dem led oversight and investigations typically lead to something ... but, Repub led investigations are Investigations to Nowhere?


13 posted on 08/15/2026 6:15:07 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Eli Kopter

This is absolute bullsh*t. These folks are being paid by the IRGC and China.


Agree.

What’s become of that ... US journalists being paid by IRGC and CCP, anyway?


14 posted on 08/15/2026 6:16:54 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: dennisw

Pete Hegseth was the target of the lunatic left long before now. They were taking potshots at him when he was up for confirmation, and they have never let up. The latest, that the aircraft carrier ABRAHAM LINCOLN had the longest ever deployment at sea, and sailor morale aboard that ship was at the lowest point in modern seafaring, are talking points of no meaningful consequence, because the ship was always well-supplied with the items of daily consumption, and the incidents of individual troubled behavior were much exaggerated in scope and consequences.


15 posted on 08/15/2026 6:19:54 AM PDT by alloysteel (In life, you sell only your time, and you buy only your satisfaction. No other transactions apply.)
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Menendez said, “You have a growing number of Democrats who are calling for Hegseth to either be fired or have raised the possibility of impeachment. At the same time, you’ve got political reporting that the Democratic candidates have made Hegseth the new boogeyman on the campaign trail. They’re planning to shift their attacks from President Trump to Hegseth.”

A little perspective is required.

During any war or war fighting, our armed forces are required to do what they volunteered to, and now the fat old politicians want to use them as objects to shame the War Department.

Screw the demonRATs, our brave fighters don't want or need this kind of fake concern, because we all know that the demonRATs don't give a rip about our fighters.

16 posted on 08/15/2026 6:26:31 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS)
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Democrats always makes normal people and good things a Boogeyman.


17 posted on 08/15/2026 6:28:33 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I pray the DoW finds those who have “complained” and does what needs to be done to end their ability to want to complain again.


18 posted on 08/15/2026 6:31:05 AM PDT by Racketeer
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Being the Democrats’ boogeyman is not a bad thing - I’d take that as a compliment.


19 posted on 08/15/2026 6:31:19 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass )
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I think they might think as I do that he would be a strong POTUS candidate in two years. They might as well start the attacks ASAP.


20 posted on 08/15/2026 6:33:27 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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