Remember the Pentagon’s witch hunt searching desperately for so-called “white supremacy” within the ranks of the U.S. military? The conspiracy—propagated by a Biden nominee—was brought up during U.S. Defense Secretary-designate Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing Tuesday.
Hegseth had the perfect response to such unsubstantiated claims.
Senator Dan Sullivan: “Do you believe the military is a systemically racist organization?”
Pete Hegseth: That is fundamentally FALSE… One could argue, that if not the least, one of the least racist institutions in our country is the United States military.” pic.twitter.com/o1r5dVIvl8
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 14, 2025
Following opening remarks, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) turned the committee’s attention to the state of the U.S. Defense Department under President Joe Biden. On Biden’s watch, the U.S. military is “not focused on readiness or lethality,” but rather busy fearmongering about racism, Sullivan said.
Sullivan recalled how on Day One, the Biden administration played up “a false and insulting narrative that our military is chock full of racists and violent extremists.” He called this attempt to smear America’s armed forces “one of the most disgraceful and shameful things I’ve seen over the past four years as a senator on this committee and as a Marine