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Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team were blindsided by the latest details to emerge about a 2017 sexual-assault allegation against Pete Hegseth, increasing their frustration with the man nominated to lead the Pentagon, according to people familiar with the matter. The transition team, which hadn’t been told about the original allegation before announcing Hegseth, was surprised again late Wednesday night when the Monterey, Calif., city police released a report...

A newly released police report from 2017 alleges that Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host and nominee for secretary of defense, blocked the woman who accused him of sexual assault from leaving the hotel room and took her phone before the encounter that he denies was anything but consensual. Hegseth, 44, who President-elect Donald Trump selected to be the next defense secretary, told police at the time that the encounter had been consensual and denied wrongdoing. The...

Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, met with senators on Capitol Hill on Thursday as new details emerged about an alleged sexual assault that took place in 2017. Hegseth was accompanied in his meetings by Vice President-elect JD Vance, an Ohio senator, as they seek to secure support among Republican senators for the former Fox News host's expected nomination. Trump selected the 44-year-old Army veteran — who served in Iraq...

The demand to clean the swamp is picking up in volume. Examples? Over there in The Hill is a swamp history lesson that reaches all the way back almost 120 years to the arrival of Theodore Roosevelt in the White House. Penned by Michael Patrick Cullinane, the Lowman Walton chair of Theodore Roosevelt Studies at Dickinson State University and a public historian of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. Cullinane writes: After his 1904 landslide victory, Theodore Roosevelt asked New York banker Charles Keep to investigate government waste, personnel management, procurement, accounting practices, and inter-agency communication. Better known as the Keep Commission, it uncovered widespread inefficiencies. This is to say, long, long ago in American history there was a president who realized the problems inherent with growing government. Ever since, there has been an increasing recognition that, in the words of Ronald Reagan, “a government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take everything you have.” The withdrawal of now-former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz as the Trump nominee for attorney general only spotlights the serious problem at the Department of Justice. Writing in the New York Post, conservative Miranda Devine notes that: The first priority of the Trump administration’s new attorney general and FBI director will be to dismantle the ideological weaponization of the DOJ and FBI that has crushed the best people, forced the rest into silence and betrayed the American people. National Review has highlighted just one example of this weaponization. In 2022, they ran this headline to a suddenly current story: “Pro-Life Activist Arrested After SWAT Team Raids Home with Guns Drawn in Front of ‘Screaming’ Children.” Only a week ago, incoming first lady Melania Trump was in the news when she refused to head to Washington with her husband to make the traditional outgoing-ingoing first ladies meeting with the outgoing first lady Jill Biden. Why? The New York Post reported this (with bold print for emphasis supplied): Melania Trump declined an offer to head to the White House Wednesday and meet with Jill Biden, citing the Biden administration’s raid on Mar-a-Lago as part of the federal government’s investigation into classified documents. “She ain’t going,” a source familiar with Melania’s decision told The Post. “Jill Biden’s husband authorized the FBI snooping through her underwear drawer. The Bidens are disgusting,” the source said. Over in the Wall Street Journal, the perceptive Dan Henninger asks this question in the headline: “Can Trump Bust Up the Beltway? Bureaucracies kept winning because no one paid attention to them. Until now” Exactly. Now, whether it’s the Department of Justice sending FBI agents to invade the home of a pro-life activist, terrorizing his kids, or sending FBI agents to raid Mar-a-Lago and ruffle through Melania Trump’s underwear drawer — not to mention turning the Department of Justice on Trump himself — the conduct and size of federal bureaucracies is, in fact, going to be drawing more attention in the Trump era. Taking the long view, it is crystal clear that the understanding of the danger of sprawling Washington bureaucracies has been growing for a very long time. As noted, all the way back in 1905, President Teddy Roosevelt had started to pay attention to the problem. In the Trump era, that growing attention to the Big Government problem is surfacing with the Cabinet nominations of Matt Gaetz to head the Department of Justice, Pete Hegseth to the Department of Defense, Robert Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services, and former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to head the National Intelligence Agency. Gaetz, targeted by critics, has now withdrawn. But the problems at the Department of Justice still remain and require a new attorney general who will stop the weaponization of the Department by left-wing activist bureaucrats. As Henninger points out: No one has been paying attention to this problem … until now. And clearly, the problem has the personal attention of the president-elect. That personal attention will be both needed and — in conservative circles at least — welcome.   READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Trump v. Washington Three Cheers for Pete Hegseth The Media Targets Trump — Again The post Draining the D.C. Swamp Picks Up Steam appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Joe Biden should pardon Donald Trump. There are many reasons to do so — legacy, magnanimity, and governance. There is also… revenge. Nothing would better pay back the Democrat elite who did Biden in. Still trying to process the Nov. 5 seismic shock, it’s easy to forget that President-elect Trump still faces four criminal cases. While all are in a sort of limbo, all are still there. Considering that several Democrat governors have already pledged to defy an administration that won’t be in office for another two months, expect Democrats to resume their lawfare strategy — either through these four cases or others. Biden should therefore pardon Trump. Now. Last week, in their cordial two-hour meeting, Biden spoke about a smooth transition; nothing would make it smoother than a full presidential pardon as that transition gets underway. For starters, it would be a gracious gesture, a signal that the time for campaign rhetoric is over. It would also be good for Biden’s legacy, which has suffered increasingly over the last four years. It would atone for some of the vitriol Biden himself has unleashed on his former opponent — and his opponent’s supporters. And it would be good for governance too: removing the specter — at least in these four cases — that presidents can be legally pursued for acts in office. A pardon would also be fitting revenge for what Biden has suffered at the hands of the Democrat elite. It is tempting to say that Biden owes the Democrat elite nothing. However, he actually owes them for quite a lot. And that debt stretches back, long before this summer. (READ MORE: Democrats Double Down on Elitism) In 2016, despite two terms of loyal service as vice president, Obama denied Biden his support for the Democrat’s presidential nomination, instead passing him over for Hillary Clinton. Four years later, Biden was the Democrat’s perpetual other choice in the race for the presidential nomination. After Biden secured the nomination, his curious choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate — the contender who failed first but only after flaying him as a racist in a debate — seemed a sop to the Democrat’s woke sensibilities, even as the elite needed Biden’s moderate image to sell their party to America. Once in office, Democrat elites demanded lefty policy after lefty policy, even as these drove Biden’s popularity downward and made him all the more dependent on the left. Of course, all this pales in comparison to the Democrat elite’s unprecedented coup this summer. Despite being the incumbent president and having won the nomination again, Biden was turned on and ignominiously turned out by his supposed political allies and the establishment media. Who knows what threats were made to drive Biden out, but assuredly Biden does. And remembers. As Biden watched his legacy suffer, he also had to watch as Kamala Harris was coronated in his place. Harris’s total federal experience barely equaled just one of Biden’s six Senate terms; she had never run in a single presidential primary, let alone won one. Biden had to watch as the establishment media who drove him out went gaga for Kamala. He had to watch as money flooded her coffers and A-list celebrities crowded her rallies. Then he watched as Harris went down in defeat to a man he had beaten four years earlier. And now, having given Harris the nomination and watched her lose, Biden must endure calls by some for him to step down from office to give Harris the presidency itself. While with others in the Democrat elite, he must listen to them blame him for Harris’s loss. Biden has had to endure much from the Democrat elite over the last eight years and especially the last four months. What better payback for those who stabbed him in the back than to pardon Trump now? Because the Democrat elite will resume their lawfare campaign as soon as they can. This will resume as guerrilla legal actions and full-frontal assaults — as they did after the 2018 midterms — if they regain power in Congress. With the stroke of a pen, Biden could undo all this and all those who undid him. A Biden pardon of Trump works on many levels. It would enhance a legacy now tarnished. It would make him look above politics — a plus for someone who has been mired in it and besmirched by it. There are many reasons and many justifications. But Biden doesn’t need another beyond the one that the Democrat elite have given him in spades, and over many years. It would be the perfect Parthian shot as he prepares to leave the White House that Democrat elites have done everything to drive him from. Revenge is said to be a dish best-served cold. Nothing would give Democrat elites a better taste of their own medicine than a pardon of Donald Trump — because nothing would leave a more bitter taste in their mouth. READ MORE from J.T. Young: Democrats Double Down on Elitism What the ‘Garbage Controversy’ Says About Democrats Americans’ Justified Media Mistrust J.T. Young is the author of the new book, Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left, from RealClear Publishing and has over three decades’ experience working in Congress, the Department of Treasury, and OMB, and representing a Fortune 20 company.   The post Biden’s Perfect Payback appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom purchased a $9 million Bay Area home marketed as an “extraordinary luxury residence” offering “resort-style living.” The timing of his exodus from the state capital, which came just a week after the election, strongly suggests that Newsom’s sights are shifting from governing California to laying the groundwork for a presidential campaign. The home — located in the elite Marin County town of Kentfield, which lies north of San Francisco — is a full 90 miles from the California capitol. Newsom has explained the move by stating that he wishes to ensure continuity for his children’s education. His daughter Montana recently enrolled at the Branson School in Marin County, where tuition costs $62,590 per year. This is far from the first time Newsom has given low priority to being in the state capital. When he was lieutenant governor, he said that he spent “Like one day a week, tops” in Sacramento. He then added that being lieutenant governor was “just so dull.” During his governorship, he has frequently traveled across the country on trips — such as his tour of red states — that have drawn ire for resembling presidential campaign stops rather than gubernatorial duties. Newsom’s wealth stems from his ownership in PlumpJack Group, a business empire of wineries, hotels, and restaurants he founded with funding from the billionaire Gordon Getty. When Newsom was elected governor, there was pressure on him to sell his businesses to avoid a conflict of interest, but he instead transferred the assets into a blind trust managed by a longtime family friend. To address the concerns and temper criticism over retaining ownership, Newsom promised to release his tax returns annually. Yet Newsom has repeatedly refused to release his tax returns, and the most recent filing he has released is from 2020. In response to a CalMatters request for his tax returns following his luxury home purchase, Newsom’s spokesman refused. Additional financial concerns are all the more reason for Newsom to release his tax returns. For instance, during his tenure as lieutenant governor, Newsom’s wife received a $290,000 annual salary from the nonprofit organization she founded. The charity was funded by a number of corporations with business interests in California, including AT&T, Comcast, Kaiser Permanente, and Pacific Gas & Electric, and donations increased markedly upon Newsom’s 2015 announcement that he was seeking the governorship. His wife continued to receive a salary of $150,000 per year from the charity upon Newsom’s elevation to the office. In the wake of Trump’s election, Newsom has quickly sought to position himself as the leader of the opposition against Trump — which of course sets himself up to seek the Democratic nomination to the presidency. Two days after the election, Newsom called a special session of the state Legislature to “safeguard California values.” In his proclamation calling the session, the governor noted his past record for leading the opposition against Trump during the former president’s first term. The governor also listed the potential “consequences” of a Trump presidency, including an “assault on reproductive freedom” and “undoing clean vehicle policies,” and pledged to “mitigate the impacts of actions by the incoming Trump Administration.” When Newsom was inaugurated to his first term as governor in 2018, he pledged to “offer an alternative to the corruption and incompetence in the White House.” Now, for his final two years as governor, he will likewise seek to make himself Trump’s most prominent opponent so as to win the presidency come 2028. He may be governor of California, but his focus will be 90 miles away, entirely consumed with his path to the White House. Ellie Gardey Holmes is the author of Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power.  READ MORE from Ellie Gardey Holmes: Biden Desperately Tries to Save His Legacy Did Kamala’s Abortion Obsession Alienate Americans? The post Newsom Trades Sacramento for $9 Million Luxury Living appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

With President-elect Donald Trump due back in the White House come January 20 — and with Republicans clinching majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives — the New Right is ascendant. This election proves that 2016 wasn’t just a flash in the pan but a spark of definitive realignment in the conservative movement. Now, as factions on the Right jostle for position in the governing coalition, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts puts social conservatives front and center.  Roberts’s newly released book, Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America, distills the priorities of the populist Right for popular readership. If Project 2025 was Heritage’s encyclopedia of granular policy positions, Dawn’s Early Light is both an articulation of our need for radical policy innovation and a rallying cry to action.  Roberts doesn’t mince words. “It’s time to fight fire with fire,” he writes in the book’s opening paragraphs. Surveying the landscape — both literal and metaphorical — of modern America, he settles on fire as his framing metaphor. Just as controlled burns aid in forest renewal and preempt bigger, uncontrollable blazes, Roberts encourages conservatives to clear out the “deadwood” of institutions that have stopped serving the common interest of the American people. Where conservatives have previously focused on the Right vs. Left divide in American politics, Roberts argues that a populist paradigm is more apt. After all, he explains, Democrats and Republicans alike hollowed out America’s industrial base under the auspices of free trade, erected obstacles to family formation, and basked in the glib glow of “Uniparty” globalism. Trump’s electoral victories are a repudiation of the elites and a vindication of earlier Uniparty critics like Pat Buchanan.  In the emerging populist coalition, Dawn’s Early Light heralds a new future for social conservatism. During the Cold War, social conservatives found common cause with economic libertarians and foreign policy hawks to defeat the Soviet Union. Roberts understands that this anti-communist fusionism was necessary, but it was also temporary. When that fusionism defined the Right, social conservatives were already the least popular members of the coalition. Over the last four decades, their concerns have been brushed aside or undercut by the right-of-center establishment. Today, however, social conservatism is the only leg of the proverbial three-legged stool to remain squarely outside the Uniparty.  Centering his vision for the new conservative coalition on a “family-first fusionism,” Roberts sees the opportunity for social conservatives to be a driving force in today’s populist realignment. To this end, Dawn’s Early Light surveys a range of topics — economic obstacles to family formation, education, big tech, trade, immigration, and foreign policy — that complement the existing legacy of social conservatism on hallmark issues like abortion or religious liberty. By building a winning electoral coalition, Trump is giving the Right a chance to deliver policy wins with genuinely popular benefits. Social conservatives don’t stand to reap lopsided benefits from their political activism — everyone benefits when housing is affordable, when addiction rates are lower, and when America isn’t reliant on foreign countries for essential goods. (RELATED: Trump v. Washington) In this new family-first fusionism, social conservatives are uniquely positioned to provide a coherent intellectual framework for the ascendant populist movement composed of traditionalists, tech bros, and disenchanted Democrats-gone-MAGA. Though social conservatism has been stuck taking one step and two steps back in recent decades, Roberts envisions a future of definitive change. That Sen. JD Vance wrote the book’s forward speaks to the central relevance of Roberts’s project in the coalition.  With a wink and a nod, Roberts acknowledges that his call is radical in the truest sense, acknowledging the word’s entomology: “radix” is Latin for “root.” And a return to the roots of American identity — the preeminence of family life, religious piety, and a frontier spirit of independence and self-government — is exactly what Dawn’s Early Light articulates for the future of conservatism. (RELATED: Saving the Country with Russ Vought) Roberts also knows that his work will be characterized as radical (read: insane) by critics who are too invested in the reigning cultural hegemony to recognize common sense. Already, the usual suspects have produced pearl-clutching reviews warning of “weird vibes and pyromania,” “paranoid, Stalinist tactics,” and “conspiracy theories.” Understandably, the members of the Uniparty are disturbed by a brazen critique of the Uniparty.  But one progressive reviewer cuts through the hysteria to sound the alarm for the American Left:  What should worry the left is Roberts’ moral certainty. Gone are the flaccid paeans to the supremacy of the free market; in their place is a conviction to march through America’s institutions with a flamethrower. The right is intellectually insurgent while the Democratic Party is mired in a muddled post-mortem. This moral certainty challenges right-of-center orthodoxy while breathing fresh air into stale promises to cut taxes and trim down bureaucratic bloat. And, as the New Right looks to the future, that moral certainty is a reminder of Cicero’s wisdom: what is right and what is in America’s interest are ultimately one and the same.  At several points throughout Dawn’s Early Light, Roberts quotes Gustav Mahler, who said, “Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire.” The flame needed to kindle the controlled burn of populism is none other than the fire of American tradition, passed down from one generation to the next.  Decades of Uniparty have dimmed that fire, but the pilot light is still on — and Roberts’ book is the oxygen needed to fan the flames of renewal. Mary Frances (Myler) Devlin is a contributing editor at The American Spectator. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2022.  READ MORE by Mary Frances Devlin:  Dissatisfied Democrats Voice Frustrations With Party Line on Transgender Issues Florida Turns the Tide for Social Conservatism Despite Massive Spending Gaps  Tuning In to the Gender Gap Election The post Kevin Roberts’s Fiery New Fusionism appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.