How should President-elect Trump respond to the attacks on his secretary of defense designate, Pete Hegseth?

By Nicholas Stix

“They” are saying that Pete Hegseth has engaged in fornication with the opposite sex, and showed up for work on Fox news drunk.

Who are “they,” you ask? “They” would be the dnc/msm, “republican” saboteurs, and political operatives who used to pass as republicans, e.g., Bill Kristol and his gang at the bulwark.

(Full disclosure, in re saboteurs: I freelanced for Bill Kristol at the weekly standard, and John Podhoretz and Mark Cunningham at the new york post during the late 1990s; and Adam Bellow, Jonah Goldberg, and Kathryn Jean Lopez at national review during the early and mid-2000s. My full disclosure list used to be much shorter, because I merely referred specifically to Bill Kristol.)

As I see it, Pete Hegseth’s biggest problem is that he fornicated with a female. If he’d engaged in sexual perversity with a man or a sexual psychopath, he’d be safe. As for showing up to work drunk, I doubt that happened. A black female can do that at her whim—local, nbc new york newsreader Sue Simmons reportedly did it all the time—but White men must maintain standards, not that maintaining them helps them any.

As for the fornication charge, “they” assert that Hegseth paid the female in question money to maintain silence about the sex. Before then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump paid off a pornographic film performer named Stephanie A. Gregory Clifford (better known by her professional name, “Stormy Daniels”), having to buy a sex partner’s silence was known as “blackmail” and “extortion,” and constituted a felony. However, once the President’s enemies began charging him with paying off Clifford/Daniels, as per one of the moral and factual reversals which have increasingly become the rage since circa 1960, the crime victim became the criminal perpetrator.

Unlike in the case of Clifford/Daniels, we still don’t know the name of the perp who extorted an as yet unknown sum out of Hegseth. And, of course, she won’t be prosecuted.

Pete Hegseth is guilty only of being a fool. Females who extort “silence” out of famous, rich men, always talk.

And what should President-elect Trump do about the false charges against Hegseth? Tell ‘em what one should always say to scurrilous charges, “Go to hell!”

If, as he is floating a trial balloon, he intends to stab Pete Hegseth in the back, he needs to be inaugurated, resign, and put a real man in charge.

Postscript: But he won't do that, because he wants to leave the presidency to his feminist, democrat daughter, Ivanka.