ProPublica is a nonprofit news organization. boast Digging deep into “key issues,” he almost published a false news story about Secretary of Defense candidate Pete Hegseth, but was dissuaded when Hegseth sent him an acceptance letter.
On Wednesday morning, Mr. Hegseth revealed on his posted.
ProPublica editor Jesse Eisenger then claimed that he had no intention of publishing the article in X.
But Mr. Eisenger revealed that he was already planning to write the book before ProPublica contacted Mr. Hegseth — based on a West Point statement that later turned out to be false. There is.
In his post, Eisenger said he urged Hegseth's lawyers to “contact our client to confirm that Mr. Hegseth understands what we are about to write.” .
And even after Mr. Hegseth's acceptance letter was sent, ProPublica pursued the story “back at West Point.” At that point, West Point admitted its mistake and confirmed that Hegseth had indeed been offered admission.
Hegseth's attorney, Tim Parlatore, said ProPublica never told Hegseth or his team that it would not publish the article.
In his hallowed thread about X, Eisenger claimed that the news organization was only doing journalism.
“This is the true nature of journalism. Please ask me something. Please check something. Repeat steps 1 and 2 as many times as necessary. It's over,” he posted.
However, he did not explain why he contacted Hegseth only after he had already made plans to write the story.
And they didn't say why they were investigating the claim that Hegseth was admitted to West Point in the first place.
More serious but anonymous and unverified allegations against Hegseth also failed to halt Hegseth's momentum toward Senate confirmation, leading the news media to attack Hegseth's military record and qualifications. It turned.
of washington post recently published A piece that belittles Hegseth's two Bronze Stars.
said Caroline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for Trump's transition team. of the post It reports an attempt to “denigrate” President Trump's nominee and “minimize the honorable service of Pete Hegseth.”
“This is another terrible story,” she told the newspaper.
Regarding the West Point error, Colonel Terrence Kelly, head of the Signal Command, told Breitbart News in a statement:
A false statement regarding Mr. Hegseth's admission to the U.S. Military Academy was published by an employee on December 10, 2024. Upon further investigation of the archived database, the employee discovered that this statement was false. Mr. Hegseth was offered admission to West Point as a member of the Class of 2003.
He added: “USMA takes this situation very seriously and apologizes for this administrative error.”
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