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GOP Senator Calls For Investigation At West Point
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has called on West Point to investigate reports that a U.S. Military Academy official “provided false information to a left-wing reporter writing a derogatory hit piece about Pete Hegseth.”
Hegseth is President Trump’s nomination for defense secretary.
“Officials at the U.S. Military Academy should not be feeding lies to left-wing reporters about President Trump’s nominees,” Cotton said.
“West Point needs to thoroughly investigate this egregiously bad judgement and potential violation of the Privacy Act immediately,” he added.
The Arkansas senator and Pete Hegseth’s lawyer wrote letters to the U.S. Military Academy’s superintendent to express their concerns.
Officials at the U.S. Military Academy should not be feeding lies to left-wing reporters about President Trump’s nominees.
West Point needs to thoroughly investigate this egregiously bad judgement and potential violation of the Privacy Act immediately. pic.twitter.com/gQpFjLbLaS
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) December 11, 2024
A closer look:
From the New York Post:
A West Point spokesperson later told The Post, “A review of our records indicates Peter Hegseth was offered admission to West Point in 1999 but did not attend. An incorrect statement involving Hegseth’s admission to the U.S. Military Academy was released by an employee on Dec. 10, 2024.”
“Upon further review of an archived database, employees realized this statement was in error,” the rep said. “Hegseth was offered acceptance to West Point as a prospective member of the Class of 2003. The academy takes this situation seriously and apologizes for this administrative error.”
Investigative nonprofit ProPublica, which bills itself as a “nonpartisan, careful and independent,” was reporting a piece on Hegseth’s links to West Point when it got the erroneous statement from the prestigious academy. The story never ran after the publication eventually received a copy of Hegseth’s admission letter.
“So: No, we are not publishing a story,” ProPublica editor Jesse Eisinger posted in a lengthy thread on X Wednesday. “This is how journalism is supposed to work. Hear something. Check something. Repeat steps 1 and 2 as many times as needed. The end.”
“We understand that ProPublica (the Left Wing hack group) is planning to publish a knowingly false report that I was not accepted to West Point in 1999,” Hegseth wrote.
“Here’s my letter of acceptance signed by West Point Superintendent, Lieutenant General Daniel Christman, US Army,” he added.
We understand that ProPublica (the Left Wing hack group) is planning to publish a knowingly false report that I was not accepted to West Point in 1999.
Here’s my letter of acceptance signed by West Point Superintendent, Lieutenant General Daniel Christman, US Army. pic.twitter.com/UOhOVZSfhJ
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) December 11, 2024
* Images from Pete Hegseth X Post *
Senator Tom Cotton is urging an investigation into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point after a spokesman falsely told ProPublica that defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth had never applied or been accepted to the school as a teenager. https://t.co/NJPngAm1RQ
— The New York Sun (@NewYorkSun) December 11, 2024
Per Just the News:
Vice President-elect JD Vance, who is also a senator, targeted the ProPublica reporter, accusing them of failing to report the “actual story” of being lied to.
“You were misled by a bureaucrat. That’s actually a story, just not the one you wanted to print,” Vance said in a post on X. “The effort to tank Hegseth’s nomination is one of the most coordinated smear campaigns I’ve ever seen in DC.”
West Point told the Daily Wire that the discrepancy was because of an “administrative error” but that a further review confirmed that he was accepted into West Point in 1999, but did not attend the university.