EXCLUSIVE: Emails, Phone Logs Reveal How Botched Pete Hegseth West Point Story Imploded

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-12 21:02:42 | Updated at 2024-12-23 12:37:24 1 week ago

EXCLUSIVE: Emails, Phone Logs Reveal How Botched Pete Hegseth West Point Story Imploded
Daily Caller ^ | 12/12/24 | Reagan Reese

Posted on 12/12/2024 12:48:33 PM PST by CFW

After a West Point spokesperson falsely claimed that Pete Hegseth had not even applied to the institution, much less been accepted, journalism outfit ProPublica reached out to Hegseth’s lawyer, asserting that the Secretary of Defense nominee had lied and gave him a one hour deadline to respond.

Hegseth posted on Wednesday morning a photo of his acceptance to West Point and said ProPublica was planning on posting “a knowingly false report” that he was not accepted to the school in 1999. ProPublica editor Jesse Eisinger then responded with a Twitter thread, explaining that the outlet had done “real journalism” and determined something they heard was not true and that they would not be posting their story. Eisinger wrote that journalists must give the subject of a story a “fair chance to respond to all of the salient facts in the story.”

We understand that ProPublica (the Left Wing hack group) is planning to publish a knowingly false report that I was not accepted to West Point in 1999.

Here’s my letter of acceptance signed by West Point Superintendent, Lieutenant General Daniel Christman, US Army. pic.twitter.com/UOhOVZSfhJ

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) December 11, 2024

However, emails and apparent phone transcripts obtained by the Caller reveal that ProPublica themselves did not do that in pursuit of the Hegseth story.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hegseth; lies; media; reporting

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When busted, reporters respond "I just reported what I was told!". But they more often than not are lying. They manipulate information, report comments out of context, and often email subjects giving them only minutes to respond before publishing hit articles.

People are no longer trusting corporate media. Viewership for both MSNBC and CNN continue to drop. Plus, when seeing reporting from those such as Pro-Publica, most readers start with the premise that they are lying starting with the headline and ending with the final paragraph of any article.

1 posted on 12/12/2024 12:48:33 PM PST by CFW

To: CFW

The deep state/left is pulling out all the stops to block Pete. Pretty obvious he is the right man for the job.

2 posted on 12/12/2024 1:02:18 PM PST by iamgalt

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