Will Cain On NBC’s Lat­est Smear Against Pete Hegseth: “Bullsh*t. 100 Per­cent Bullsh*t. Actually…Horsesh*t.”

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Will Cain On NBC’s Latest Smear Against Pete Hegseth: “Bullsh*t. 100 Percent Bullsh*t. Actually…Horsesh*t.”

The Regime Media, which has repeat­ed­ly proven itself to be com­plete­ly biased and total­ly unre­li­able, has declared open war against Pete Hegseth, Pres­i­dent-Elect Trump’s nom­i­nee to head the Depart­ment of Defense.

On Tues­day, NBC pre­sent­ed a hit piece claim­ing Hegseth has a drink­ing prob­lem.  News­busters post­ed a tran­script from NBC Night­ly News:

NBC NIGHTLY NEWS

12/3/24

6:36 PM

LESTER HOLT: Tonight there are new warn­ing signs that Pete Hegseth’s path to nom­i­na­tion as Defense Sec­re­tary may be in jeop­ardy with Sen­ate Repub­li­cans. It comes as we have new report­ing involv­ing alle­ga­tions about his drink­ing from for­mer col­leagues at Fox News. Claims the Trump tran­si­tion team is strong­ly deny­ing tonight. Gar­rett Haake now with late details.

GARRETT HAAKE: Tonight Pres­i­dent-Elect Don­ald Trump’s pick for Defense Sec­re­tary, Pete Hegseth, fac­ing grow­ing skep­ti­cism of his chances for con­fir­ma­tion amid dam­ag­ing news reports.

Do you need to address the ques­tions about your char­ac­ter that have been raised —

And now ten cur­rent and for­mer Fox News employ­ees who worked with Hegseth, who host­ed one of the network’s morn­ing shows, telling NBC News that he drank in ways that con­cerned them. Two say­ing that on more than a dozen occa­sions they smelled alco­hol on him before he went on air. Quote: “every­one would be talk­ing about it behind the scenes”, one of the for­mer Fox News employ­ees said. “He should not be Sec­re­tary of Defense”, anoth­er for­mer Fox News employ­ee said. “His drink­ing should be dis­qual­i­fy­ing.” A Trump tran­si­tion spokesper­son call­ing the alle­ga­tions “dis­gust­ing, com­plete­ly unfound­ed, and false.” An attor­ney for Hegseth refer­ring us to the tran­si­tion state­ment. Fox News did not respond.

Mr. Hegseth, so many of these sto­ries about you have involved alco­hol. Do you have a drink­ing prob­lem, sir?

Now NBC News has learned as many as six GOP sen­a­tors are not com­fort­able sup­port­ing Hegseth’s nom­i­na­tion, accord­ing to mul­ti­ple Repub­li­cans with direct knowl­edge of the nom­i­na­tion process. Hegseth can only afford to lose the sup­port of three Repub­li­cans if all Democ­rats vote no.

LINDSEY GRAHAM: The arti­cles I’ve read…

HAAKE: Yeah?

GRAHAM: Some of them are con­cern­ing. I don’t know if it’s true or not. But he’ll go through the process. He’ll be asked about it, we’ll see what hap­pens.

ROGER WICKER: There are ques­tions that some mem­bers have, and we’re going to be work­ing for an answer.

HAAKE: Are you among the mem­bers who have ques­tions?

WICKER: I’m look­ing to be sup­port­ive.

HAAKE: But no Repub­li­can sen­a­tor has pub­licly said they will oppose Hegseth, who’s also a dec­o­rat­ed com­bat vet­er­an.

MIKE ROUNDS: I think they’ve got a real­ly good — I think they’ve got a good shot of get­ting them all through.

HAAKE: Mean­while, late tonight, anoth­er Trump pick abrupt­ly pulled his name from con­sid­er­a­tion. Chad Chro­nis­ter, the sher­iff in Hills­bor­ough Coun­ty, Flori­da, with­draw­ing his selec­tion for Admin­is­tra­tor of the Drug Enforce­ment Admin­is­tra­tion post­ing, quote, “Over the past sev­er­al days, as the grav­i­ty of this very impor­tant respon­si­bil­i­ty set in, I’ve con­clud­ed that I must respect­ful­ly with­draw from con­sid­er­a­tion.”

HOLT: And, Gar­rett, the Trump team has also now reached an agree­ment with the Jus­tice Depart­ment for an FBI back­ground check of nom­i­nees.

HAAKE: Yeah, that’s right, Lester. It’s called a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing. And some Repub­li­can sen­a­tors have been urg­ing the Trump tran­si­tion to sign, wor­ried that not get­ting checks done in a time­ly fash­ion could delay con­fir­ma­tions or lead to unwel­come sur­pris­es just before hear­ings get start­ed. Lester.

HOLT: Gar­rett Haake. Thank you.

Will Cain, a Fox News host who has worked with Hegseth and sat next to him for five hours every week­end morn­ing for the past five years, respond­ed sharply to the hit piece, call­ing it “bull­shit.”  He went on to call it “horse­shit.”

“Bull­shit. 100 per­cent bull­shit. Actually…horseshit,” he tweet­ed:

Will this pres­i­den­tial elec­tion be the most impor­tant in Amer­i­can his­to­ry?

He had much more to say on the mat­ter:

“Your sto­ry is horse­shit @NBCNews. Put my name on it. On the record. It’ll be your only on the record source.
Signed,
The guy who sat next to him for 8 hours every week for five years start­ing at 6am.”

Dan Bongi­no weighed in, call­ing the alle­ga­tion “absolute bull­shit.”

Piers Mor­gan stood up for Hegseth as well:

Oth­er cur­rent and for­mer Fox col­leagues defend­ed Hegseth against the smears and alle­ga­tions.

Anony­mous.  Indeed.

Sean Par­nell, who worked with Hegseth at Con­cerned Vet­er­ans for America,weighed in as well:

A Regime Media oper­a­tive dis­guised as a “reporter” asked Hegseth about the drink­ing alle­ga­tion.

“I won’t dig­ni­fy that with a response,” he replied:

Nor should he.

Relat­ed:

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