ProPublica started to publish a story about Pete Hegseth before it BLEW UP in their faces…

by The Right Scoop

Leftist outlet ProPublica nearly published a completely false story about Pete Hegseth but had to relent after it blew up in their faces.

The short version is that Hegseth has claimed that he was accepted into West Point in the past, so ProPublica wanted to see if he was lying and asked West Point about it.

West Point claimed Hegseth never attended nor had he even applied. ProPublica was rushing to publish the story and gave Hegseth’s lawyer one hour to respond to why Hegseth had lied about this.

Hegseth himself responded on X with his acceptance letter from West Point from 1999 and the smear quickly blew up in their faces:

 
The ‘journalist’ from ProPublica, Jesse Eisinger, responded claiming this his how journalism works or something:

Yeah right. Journalism for ProPublica is only trying to hurt their political opponents, whether it be a Trump nominee for SecDef or a sitting Supreme Court justice. That’s all they live for.

Here’s some of the responses to Eisinger:


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