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Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer Amid the Deep State’s efforts to fire @PeteHegseth as Defense Secretary, @GovRonDeSantis has pitched himself as a Replacement to be Defense Secretary. If this happens, he would likely make his wife his replacement as acting Governor of Florida ahead of the 2026 Florida Gubernatorial election so that she would have an incumbent privilege. There has been a lot of speculation about making @CaseyDeSantis Lieutenant Governor of Florida, but these discussions were happening at the same time @Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing was taking place, and Ron was lining up to be his replacement. The position of Lieutenant Governor...

In yet another major win for President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Army veteran Pete Hegseth, it is emerging that the story published in The Atlantic about a supposed group chat in which “war plans” were shared was a “hoax,” as there were no war plans shared in the chat, which is just what Hegseth said to discredit the story from the start. For reference, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, released an explosive report in which he claimed to have been added to a group chat in which Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and...