Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was stunned by President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be his Secretary of Defense. She immediately took to X to express her disapproval.
Warren wrote, “A Fox & Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense. I lead the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our service members. Donald Trump’s pick will make us less safe and must be rejected.”
Apparently, the senator was unaware that Hegseth served in the military for 20 years, during which he deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. He also received two bronze star medals, which the military awards to soldiers who have distinguished themselves “by heroic or meritorious achievement or service … while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States.”
She also didn’t know that he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University. Or that, during his time at Fox, he’s been a strong advocate for the veteran community.
Warren’s remark received the swift, sharp rebuke it deserved.
Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, pointed out Hegseth’s impressive resume and reminded Warren, “You falsely claimed to be an Indian to get a job you couldn’t get on the merits. Sit down, Pocahontas.”
Davis was, of course, referencing Warren’s claims of Native American heritage on employment forms in the 1990s. She had misrepresented herself in the hopes that her “minority status” would boost her career prospects.
The Boston Herald broke the story during her first run for the Senate in 2012. Warren claimed that her parents had often told her she had Cherokee blood. This sorry little saga ended in humiliating fashion for the senator when, challenged by then-President Trump, she took a DNA test in 2018 which showed she had less Native American ancestry than the average African American.
Others quickly piled on.
The following post might be the best argument for a Hegseth confirmation yet.
And on it went. Reply after brutal reply.
To be fair, Warren wasn’t the only Democrat to disparage Hegseth’s qualifications. Don Lemon, Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, Watergate relic Carl Bernstein, and former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican in name only, joined the meltdown.
Still, it was surprising that she would put herself out there after having been slammed so hard on X just the day before. She wrote: “Donald Trump and his transition team are already breaking the law. I would know because I wrote the law. Incoming presidents are required to prevent conflicts of interest and sign an ethics agreement. This is what illegal corruption looks like.”
Warren was simply employing that time-honored tactic that comes so naturally to Democrats: accusing their enemies of what they themselves are doing. This strategy was handed down to them decades ago from the late community organizer and communist Saul Alinsky.
Unfortunately for Warren, after a decade of the Democratic Party’s ever more brazen and corrupt schemes to destroy Trump, thousands of users recognized her hypocrisy and struck back.
Warren doesn’t realize that Trump’s resounding victory shows the majority of voters are on to them by now. Democrats, drunk with power and craving even more, played the game too long. The party jumped the shark when they decided to use law fare against Trump.
And, while they are free to pretend otherwise, the election showed they’ve already run afoul of another Alinsky rule: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. ‘Don’t become old news.’”
Elizabeth writes commentary for The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a member of the Editorial Board at The Sixteenth Council, a London think tank. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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