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IrishBubbaLiberal

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Wed Jun 18, 2025, 03:10 PM Wednesday

Hegseth refuses to fire DOD press secretary for antisemitism posts

I know this was posted before, but the title failed to point out the importance of
Hegseth refusing to fire his DOD press secretary for her antisemitism posts.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220410777



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pete-hegseth-s-new-press-secretary-posted-deranged-claims-about-lynching/ar-AA1G1yPN

Pete Hegseth’s New Press Secretary Posted Deranged Claims About Lynching


A Pentagon staffer was promoted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth despite her history of pushing antisemitic conspiracy theories and neo-Nazi rhetoric on social media.

Kingsley Wilson, formerly a deputy press secretary at the Department of Defense, was appointed as the Pentagon’s chief press secretary on May 23, just months after reports exposed her extremist online views.

That includes endorsing the “great replacement” theory—which falsely claims white Americans are being intentionally replaced as the dominant race in the U.S for political gain—as a “reality.”

She also pushed the long-debunked claim that Leo Frank, a Jewish man lynched in Georgia in 1915 after a wrongful conviction, was actually guilty. Frank was posthumously pardoned in 1986 by the state of Georgia.

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Another report
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseths-new-press-secretary-kingsley-wilson-posted-deranged-claims/
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