Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle predicted during an appearance on Donald Trump Jr.'s podcast that if President-elect Donald Trump's defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, passes, “everyone will pass.” triggereddescribes Hegses as the “tip of the spear.”
Don Jr. asked Boyle to update listeners on the verification process.
“It seems like people are returning to the mission that the American people really demonstrated on November 5th,” Trump Jr. said.
“I think Hegseth is really the tip of the spear here… in how he led his men to war, into combat. He led President Trump's Cabinet appointments to approval here. ” Boyle began. “I feel very much that he is the tip of the spear. If he goes through, we all go through.
“And if he doesn't and gets caught in the swamp, I think some of the other draft picks are going to have a really tough time,” he said, noting that the situation looks “pretty bleak.” did. Hegseth, but he started fighting and turned it around.
“How do you do it? He started fighting, right? I mean, he wrote. He wrote an op-ed in wall street journal. He did an interview with Megyn Kelly, which was great. And he's taken that message directly into his meetings with senators, winning over one senator after another. They all see the same thing your dad did with Pete, and a lot of these senators have known him for a long time, you know? They know about the veterans who care about America. “If you look at these as fake establishment media attacks based on anonymous sources, it's backfired in a big way,” Boyle said, citing the troubling Brett Kavanaugh confirmation as an example. and slurs are not new to these lawmakers, he added. .
“They know what it's like because they've been through all of this. And they've been through a lot of misinformation and slander from the established media, so I'm going to talk about your show there. “I was watching the opening, where you were talking about the established media, and they're weaker than ever,” Boyle said. He added that establishment media had “lost a lot of influence.”
President Trump responded: “They tried to put a guy in a tank.” “He has two Bronze Stars. That's why they say he's not eligible. What I'm looking at is Lloyd Austin, and you know, the triple mask. “I don't know. ” he says.
Boyle noted that Hegseth made further progress after meeting again with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on Monday.
“I believe this was the third conversation between the two of them, and the second in-person meeting. Then Sen. Ernst came out and said she supports Pete Hegseth, but she told an anonymous source I said I didn’t believe it,” Boyle said. “And, you know, we're set up for a yes vote here, right? Well, she didn't explicitly say she was going to vote yes, but let me just say this. Tonight. She is voting in favor of the statement.”
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Boyle also explained how the confirmation process will proceed in the coming weeks after the new Senate takes office on January 3.
“And the next day they start working, right? And then on January 6th, a day that's forever burned into our minds from four years ago, the Electoral College meets with Congress, and Congress obviously , this election, this election, and perhaps After that, it is the day we will certify your father's victory. Thereafter, confirmation hearings for these various candidates will be held by the relevant committees until January 20th, the day of the inauguration. “It will be,” he said.
“So you're going to see Pete Hegseth going before the military. You're going to see Pam Bondi and Kash Patel and others going before the judiciary. Marco Rubio going before foreign affairs and things like that. You'll see it go, right? All of that will be submitted to the relevant committees. The committees will hold approval hearings,” he said, noting that it will be televised.
“Then the committee itself will vote on whether to approve the nominee, and normally once we get to that point, it’s a Republican-controlled Senate, so the committee will pass the nominee. And after that happened, your dad was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States at noon on January 20th, and then within hours, the most important national security-focused nominee was elected to the U.S. Senate. It will be approved,” he said. “Typically, the government would nominate the secretary of defense first.” That's because, as we move from one government to another, “we have to make the Department of Defense work as quickly and expeditiously as possible.”
“So they usually end up confirming in the afternoon or evening of the day, so the rest of the people are going to the inaugural ball or walking around the streets of Washington, D.C., and Donald Trump is the 47th Once again, the U.S. Senate will work throughout the afternoon and evening to confirm Donald Trump's various picks as he celebrates his big presidential moment. — specifically those focused on national security,” he said, noting that those would likely include the secretary of defense, attorney general and director of national intelligence.
“Then, probably in the coming weeks, we'll see other people come in, like the Treasury secretary or the Department of Health and Human Services,” he added.
