Pete Hegseth made one promise that left Joe Biden shaking in his boots Feb 27, 2025

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Pete Hegseth made one promise that left Joe Biden shaking in his boots

Feb 27, 2025

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Pete Hegseth’s mission is to do right by America’s warfighters.

He’s going to right one terrible wrong. 

And Pete Hegseth made one promise that left Joe Biden shaking in his boots.

Pete Hegseth vows to review Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan

President Donald Trump held the first cabinet meeting of his second term. 

He gave Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth the green light to investigate former President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. 

A reporter asked Trump and Hegseth if there were any plans to fire Generals who were involved in the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. 

“They’re going to be largely gone,” Trump said of the Generals. 

“I’m not going to tell this man what to do,” Trump said while looking at Hegseth. “But I will say that if I had his place, I’d fire every single one of them.”

Biden botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan from beginning to end. 

He ignored the warning signs on the ground that the country was on the verge of collapsing. 

The Biden administration then entrusted Afghans to handle security at the Kabul Airport where an ISIS suicide bomber killed 13 U.S. soldiers at the Abbey Gate entrance.

“That’s a question we’ve thought a lot about,” Hegseth said. “We’re doing a complete review of every single aspect of what happened with the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan and plan to have full accountability. It’s one of the first things we announced to the Defense Department for that reason, Sir.”

Biden didn’t fire a single member of his administration or the military after the Afghanistan withdrawal. 

“So we’re taking a very different view, obviously, than the previous administration,” Hegseth added. “And there will be full accountability.”

The investigation into Afghanistan is already underway

Hegseth previously told Breitbart News in an interview that he already has investigators at the Pentagon looking into the Afghanistan withdrawal.

“We’ve already identified folks that’ll be in charge of that full investigation inside the Pentagon,” Hegseth said. “I don’t have a timeframe on it. Sadly, we’ve already waited two-and-a-half years, three years since what occurred. I don’t want to wait longer, but I always want to get it right.”

He promised to dig down into the decision-making of one of the worst foreign debacles in American history. 

“The way you establish real accountability is by establishing real fact chains — chains of events, information, what happened. Why did it happen? Who made the decision? What was the reason they made that decision? Why did they give advice or not give advice? Why did they execute an order a certain way. Did they speak up when they were supposed to or not? I don’t think there’s anybody that feels like there’s been an honest accounting of what happened in Afghanistan. That’s our job,” Hegseth explained. 

Hegseth wants to reestablish trust and accountability at the Department of Defense that were lost during the previous administration.

A full accounting of what happened during Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that cost the lives of 13 American soldiers would go a long way toward that end. 

Border Czar Tom Homan had one ugly surprise for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Feb 21, 2025..Border Czar Homan asks if Ocasio-Cortez can be criminally prosecuted

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Border Czar Tom Homan had one ugly surprise for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Feb 21, 2025

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The feud between Border Czar Tom Homan and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is coming to define the early stages of the second Trump administration.

Homan wanted to show he wasn’t the guy to mess with.

And Border Czar Tom Homan had one ugly surprise for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Border Czar Homan asks if Ocasio-Cortez can be criminally prosecuted

Homan had a bone to pick with Ocasio-Cortez.

Ocasio-Cortez wants to be the face of the resistance to the Trump administration’s mass deportations.

That’s good 2028 politics for Ocasio-Cortez.

But it’s terrible for the United States of America.

Homan made that clear in an interview with Sean Hannity.

In the interview, Homan took particular issue with Ocasio-Cortez’s Congressional office hosting a webinar where staffers instructed illegal aliens how to evade arrest by ICE.

Homan explained the criminal illegal aliens ICE targeted were the worst of the worst, and anything that made their job more difficult put their lives in danger.

“We all know what she’s up to. She wants to tell these people how to evade arrest, how to evade ICE and we still got child predators we’re looking for in New York and her district. People convicted of child sex crimes, people who’ve been convicted of rape, and she wants to say she’s educating them in constitutional rights,” Homan stated.

Homan then threw shade at Ocasio-Cortez, snarking that he thought a Member of Congress would be glad to see the administration enforcing immigration law as it was written.

“We’re trying to enforce the laws that Congress enacted. I believe she’s a member of Congress, so if they’re writing laws they don’t want enforced, I can think they got better things to do at a time, but as a member of Congress, you would think she’d want ICE to enforce laws, laws they enacted, that they appropriate us funding to do, and that’s what we’re trying to do, and she’s making it more difficult and more dangerous,” Homan continued.

When Hannity asked if this webinar was a legal violation, Homan replied that was exactly the question he posed to the acting Deputy Attorney General.

“That’s exactly the question I posed to the Deputy Attorney General. I asked him to look into it. I said, you know, I know through my career someone steps in front of you and between you and the person you’re arresting or beating,” Homan added.

Impeding law enforcement from making an arrest is a crime.

But Homan isn’t a trained lawyer, which was a point he made when Hannity asked him about Ocasio-Cortez raising a First Amendment defense to any criminal charges.

“Yeah, that’s a violation, but at what point do you cross the line on saying you’re educating people versus you’re teaching them how to evade ICE arrest? So I’ve asked that question to the Department of Justice for clear guidance so I can share that with the officers of ICE. So we’re looking for that clear direction so we can start taking action on people that want to evade, who want to help educate these people to evade ICE, so hopefully any day now we get that guidance sent out to the field,” Homan stated.

Mass deportations were President Trump’s signature campaign promise.

Ocasio-Cortez is eyeing a 2028 Presidential campaign run.

Establishing herself as the archnemesis of Trump and his border czar will boost her national recognition and fundraising ability.

But unlike the last four years when Attorney General Merrick Garland and the weaponized Justice Department allowed the lawless left to run wild, the Trump administration will enforce federal immigration law down to the letter.

Peter Doocy just asked one gotcha question about Donald Trump that left jaws on the floor Feb 25, 2025

 

Peter Doocy just asked one gotcha question about Donald Trump that left jaws on the floor

Feb 25, 2025

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Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy is usually one of the only fair reporters in the press briefing room.

However, President Trump found out that Doocy can’t always be trusted.

And Peter Doocy just asked one gotcha question about Donald Trump that left jaws on the floor.

Peter Doocy plays along with the media narrative on Trump and Russia

The media is obsessing over the fact that President Trump wants to end the war in Ukraine.

The media and the Swamp are also in the middle of a five-alarm fire over the realization that Trump intends to implement his American first foreign policy and toss the uniparty, pro-war consensus that ruled Washington, D.C. for the last 80 years into the trash heap of history.

Democrats, Never-Trumpers, and their allies in the press have decided to run a new version of the Russia collusion hoax by baselessly claiming Trump is soft on Russian President Vladimir Putin because Trump’s slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for swindling U.S. taxpayers out of hundreds of billions of dollars to fund this lost war.

Even Peter Doocy got into the act, demanding National Security Advisor Michael Waltz say once and for all that Putin was responsible for the war.

“After the President’s post on [Truth] Social yesterday. I need to know — who does he think is more responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Putin or Zelenskyy?” Doocy demanded Waltz.

Watz properly answered that the question was beside the point since President Trump’s goal was ending the war, stopping the killing, and creating peace in the region.

President Trump addressed these criticisms the following day in a radio interview with Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade.

“You know, every time I say, oh, it’s not Russia’s fault, I always get slammed by the fake news,” Trump began.

Trump said this war never should have started and wouldn’t have if he was President in 2022.

But Trump also made the point that Joe Biden and Zelenskyy made the disastrous decision to float NATO membership for Ukraine despite both knowing that was a red line for Russia.

“But I’m telling you, Biden said the wrong things. Zelenskyy said the wrong things. They got attacked by somebody that’s much bigger and much stronger, which is a bad thing to do, and you don’t do that. But Russia could have been talked out of that so easily. That should never have been a war,” Trump added.

For all the crying and moaning in the media, Trump told Kilmeade that it was Russia who started the war with their invasion.

“Now Russia attacked,” Trump declared.

However, Trump explained that didn’t absolve Biden of blame for his blunders.

“But they shouldn’t have let them attack because they wouldn’t have attacked if they — if you had people that knew what they were doing. Joe Biden is a very dumb man. You know that, and I know it. Joe Biden is a very dumb man who was dumber than ever before because, you know, things have happened to him. He had no idea what he was doing, and everything he said was wrong,” Trump continued.

Doocy may have come under corporate pressure to pursue this line of questioning.

Rupert Murdoch owns both the New York Post and Fox News.

Murdoch is a fanatical supporter of the war in Ukraine, so much so that Murdoch tried to lobby Donald Trump out of picking J.D. Vance as his running mate over Vance’s opposition to funding the war.

The day after Doocy’s question, the Post ran a front page attacking President Trump over his comments on Ukraine.

February 27, 2025 Biden's Stumbling Economy Was Even Worse Than We Thought So much for the idea that Donald Trump inherited a historically strong economy from Joe Biden.

 

So much for the idea that Donald Trump inherited a historically strong economy from Joe Biden.   View in browser   by John Carney - Breitbart Economics Editor Alex Marlow - Breitbart Editor-In-Chief   February 27, 2025 Biden's Stumbling Economy Was Even Worse Than We Thought So much for the idea that Donald Trump inherited a historically strong economy from Joe Biden. The latest GDP report released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis confirms what many economists had been quietly warning: beneath the surface, the economy is weaker than it seemed. The fourth quarter 2024 data shows real GDP growth slowing to 2.3 percent, down from 3.1 percent in third quarter, marking a clear loss of momentum. While this figure remains unchanged from the first estimate, key components within the report reveal a more concerning picture as revisions have exposed additional weaknesses. President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office on November 13, 2024. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) One of the most important changes in the latest revision is the downgrade in business investment and consumer income growth. Gross private domestic investment declined more than previously estimated, falling from -5.6 percent to -5.7 percent. Within fixed investment, the downward revision was even steeper, from -0.6 percent to -1.4 percent. The real concern lies in nonresidential investment, which fell from -2.2 percent to -3.2 percent, signaling a deeper pullback in corporate spending. Within this category, equipment investment saw an already severe decline revised to a calamitous plunge, worsening from -7.8 percent to -9.0 percent. Intellectual property products, once estimated to have grown 2.6 percent, were revised down to 0.0 percent, signaling a halt in the growth of innovation spending. The Role of Business Investment in Economic Growth Why does business investment matter so much? In the short term, it drives demand for capital goods and services. In the long term, it’s the foundation for higher productivity, which ultimately determines wage growth and living standards. When businesses cut back on investment, they’re signaling uncertainty about future demand, and that uncertainty has a way of becoming self-fulfilling. The sharper-than-estimated decline in business investment suggests that firms are holding off on expansions, a sign that American businesses had grown weary of economic conditions that prevailed at the end of the Biden administration. Historically, large contractions in business investment have often preceded broader slowdowns. This isn’t proof that a recession is around the corner, but it does suggest that the economy’s underlying resilience is more fragile than previously assumed. While consumer spending remained a relative bright spot, rising 4.2 percent, that number alone doesn’t tell us much about sustainability. Spending on goods was revised downward, and real disposable income growth was weaker than initially reported. In other words, while households are still spending, they’re not necessarily gaining purchasing power at the rate we once thought. Moreover, the surge in spending has been partially financed by the fading tailwinds of excess savings from the pandemic era. With higher borrowing costs and persistent inflation, it seems likely that the much talked about consumer resilience may turn into consumer fragility. If the labor market begins to crack, spending will probably retreat. That's why the surge in jobless claims in this week's report stirred up a lot of investor anxiety on Thursday. Housing Market Signals Additional Weakness The latest housing data reinforces the idea that we may be teetering on the edge of a broader economic slowdown. Pending home sales fell 4.6 percent in January to their lowest level on record, dating back to 2001. The decline, larger than economists had expected, highlights the strain that high mortgage rates and rising home prices are placing on affordability. The South, the nation’s largest home-selling region, saw a 9.2 percent decline in contract signings, the biggest drop since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. While winter weather may have played a role, the persistent issue remains affordability—home prices rose 3.9 percent in December from a year earlier, continuing an upward trend that has put homeownership out of reach for many Americans. Higher mortgage rates, hovering near seven percent, have been a key driver of the slowdown. This suggests that housing, typically a leading indicator for economic activity, could be signaling further weakness ahead. If the housing market continues to deteriorate, its impact will ripple through broader economic sectors, from construction to consumer spending. Speaking of inflation, the report revised core PCE inflation up a tenth of a point to 2.7 percent. That may not sound like much, but it’s enough to highlight the irresponsibility of the Fed's cuts at the tail end of the Biden administration. If inflation remains sticky while business investment weakens, we could be heading into the kind of economic environment where growth slows but the Fed needs to keep monetary policy restrictive. Another warning sign is that the 2.3 percent growth rate required a surge in government spending. Federal outlays increased by 4.0 percent, faster than the 3.2 percent estimated last month. Defense spending surged 4.7 percent, revised up from the prior estimate of 3.3 percent, indicating a troubling reliance on war machine building to grow the economy. While this helped prop up the economy, it’s not a substitute for private sector investment. The real question is whether businesses regain the confidence to invest, or whether we’re looking at a prolonged period of stagnation. The latest revisions expose deeper economic fragility than the earlier estimate suggested. 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