Meanwhile, they needed a distraction — fast. Enter Pete Hegseth Defense Secretary, targeted by a coordinated media hit job for the crime of… telling the truth. They are trying to make Signal Gate the end of his legacy so the legacy press outlets lined up to frame Hegseth as a dangerous radical for daring to expose the cultural rot and institutional decay President Trump is actively dismantling. How, hit pieces, stunning how he removes leakers and immediately thereafter sudden stories of pentagon ineptitude and disorder hit the front pages. Their panic is so palpable, it might as well be televised — and it is, nightly, in high definition propaganda.