Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon train wreck exposes one of Donald Trump’s most self-destructive impulses, the president’s biographer says.
Hegseth, the 46-year-old Fox News host-turned-defense secretary, has transformed the Pentagon into a pressure cooker of leak crackdowns and culture war crusades while steering the nation deeper into Trump’s quagmire war with Iran.
After Hegseth, who wants everyone to call him “Secretary of War,” forced out Army Secretary Dan Driscoll in his latest ego-driven overhaul of top Pentagon leadership last week, even a Republican senator called on Trump to fire him.
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