Trump boycotted the January 28, 2016 debate in Des Moines, Iowa.
Trump boycotted the January 28, 2016 debate in Des Moines, Iowa.
... You understand the sacrifice that our troops make and the risk they take when they sign up. I would submit to the jury, it is not to die in a war for Israel. ...
Republicans were always going to lose in November, well before the Iran attack on Feb 28.
It's not exactly a politically winning message, even though 34 states in America allow minors to marry with parental and/or court consent, and four set no minimum age by law.
Google AI estimates there were fewer than 2,500 minor marriages in 2018, mostly involving girls.
Epstein liked 'em young too, but he wasn't trying to marry any of them for crying out loud. He isn't called a predator for nothing.
Meanwhile, marriage under the age of 18 is banned without exception in only 16 states and DC, mostly in the northeast with Missouri and Virginia being notable exceptions in the near south.
Is Megyn just doing this for the clicks, or is it symptomatic of having a tin ear?
Why not both?
At any rate, the woman who once confronted Trump in 2015 sure has changed her spots since then.
CNN video here from Dec 3rd, in which Hegseth criticizes Trump for being an arm chair warrior who had the temerity to criticize John McCain while avoiding the draft.
Which is rich coming from Hegseth who was never regular military.
It's Megyn Kelly interviewing him, too, lol, who has been defending Pete The Warrior and his PTSD for his bad behavior with the women.
I keep waiting for someone to ask Hegseth how many firefights he was in in the field in Afghanistan. We'd all like to know in this age of stolen valor. We know that's a fact about his time in Iraq, but everyone keeps talking as if that's what he did in Afghanistan when the only evidence I find is that he taught a course there and that his stay was very brief.
More at Mediaite here.
Bunch of phony, baloney, plastic banana, good time rock 'n rollas.
Don’t let the left do to Pete Hegseth what it did to Brett Kavanaugh
It’s the Brett Kavanaugh show all over again. ... Was Hegseth also in another relationship at the time [2017]? Maybe. But he’s being nominated for secretary of defense, not for the role of our boyfriend or husband. His personal life issues should stay personal.
As Megyn Kelly pointed out, “Having difficulty in one’s personal relationship, especially after having served two tours — which it’s not uncommon for these combat vets to come back and not be able to navigate their love lives all that well — is much different than being a rapist.”
Brett Kavanaugh isn't on his third wife, or his second, and hasn't cheated on his first one, let alone on three and then lied about it by omission. There is no moral equivalence between Pete Hegseth and Brett Kavanaugh whatsoever.
Hegseth meanwhile served in combat in Iraq in 2005-6, having married wife number one in 2004. That marriage ended in 2009, reportedly due to his infidelity, and he remarried the very next year in 2010, both of which life-altering events occurred while he was executive director of Vets For Freedom, 2007-2012.
In 2012 he was an active duty military instructor in Afghanistan, but evidently for not very long.
In that same year he had started a political action committee called MN PAC, briefly ran for the US Senate from Minnesota starting in February, lost at the Republican Convention in May, and also became CEO of Concerned Veterans for America that year, a job he held until 2015, having become a Fox News contributor the previous year.
It is laughable to suggest that this biography matches a man suffering from the post-traumatic stress of two tours of duty in the Middle East. He looks more like an ambitious climber trying to make the most he can out of what little he's got.
In Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Monday 25 October 2010.
Stories:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-to-gop-%E2%80%98they-can-come-for-the-ride-but-they-have-to-sit-in-back/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-tells-republicans-to-sit-in-back
https://www.today.com/news/rove-reacts-obama-saying-gop-should-be-back-wbna40024583
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/10/25/obama-assails-gop-on-clouded-final-campaign-push/
https://www.theledger.com/story/news/2010/10/26/obama-assails-gop-in-races/26396696007/