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turbinetree

(27,534 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 09:42 PM 6 hrs ago

'Fire this idiot': Hegseth under fire over report he sought defense stocks before Iran war

By Robert Davis
Published March 30, 2026 9:19 PM ET

Political analysts and observers were aghast on Monday after a new report revealed that President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary has reached a new "height of criminality."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's stockbroker looked into purchasing a defense-related fund ahead of the Trump administration launching its self-described "excursion" in Iran, the Financial Times reported, citing "three people familiar with the matter."

"Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February about making a multimillion-dollar investment in the asset manager’s Defense Industrials Active ETF, the people said, shortly before the U.S. launched military action against Tehran," the report reads in part.

https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2676640592/

To every maga senator that voted to place this corrupt individual into power and has now gone full bore to place citizens lives in danger.............in Iran................do you think that if you have any morality you would bring this sycophant back into your committee,, bring Blackrock in for questioning and ask him and them some questions of trying to profit off dead people is not funny.........and somewhere the traitor running the show knew about this.............there is absolutely know end to this BS................

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'Fire this idiot': Hegseth under fire over report he sought defense stocks before Iran war (Original Post) turbinetree 6 hrs ago OP
Fire? He should be locked up. yourout 6 hrs ago #1
Keep going with Patel, Miller, Bondi, Rubio, Leavitt etc etc etc etc vapor2 6 hrs ago #2
ding, this. AllaN01Bear 4 hrs ago #3
Business as usual. Nothing to see here. Move along. Rinse and repeat. flashman13 4 hrs ago #4
Aghast? Oh my! I do declare that I must sit on my fainting couch with such news. progressoid 4 hrs ago #5
Draining the swamp is another broken promise. nt Ilsa 3 hrs ago #6
Here is a link around the paywall to the original article cited in the story CoopersDad 3 hrs ago #7

progressoid

(53,177 posts)
5. Aghast? Oh my! I do declare that I must sit on my fainting couch with such news.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 11:41 PM
4 hrs ago

Who expects anything to come of this?

Anyone?

Anyone?

The rule of law is dead in America and the oligarchs are running the show.

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