Hegseth stumps in Iowa while the USS Lincoln rots at sea. Trump’s crypto show as America burns. Data centers are the new third rail. Media Blitz Pod
The Secretary of Defense is campaigning in Iowa while the crew of the USS Lincoln stays deployed past every reasonable expectation and their families go public because the chain of command won’t. Meanwhile the White House stages a crypto-and-AI photo op while gas, housing, and grocery prices keep grinding on working families. This is what happens when the guardrails between politics and the military come all the way down — and when the party in power picks the wrong fight in the wrong week.
A Secretary of Defense stumping at a congressional campaign event in Iowa. A carrier crew stretched past the breaking point with no…
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Pete Hegseth campaigning in Iowa for Zach Nunn while the USS. Pete Hegseth campaigning in Iowa for Zach Nunn while the USS Lincoln stays deployed and no embedded reporters are on board to tell the ground truth
How military families are going around the Pentagon and arou. How military families are going around the Pentagon and around the press to speak directly to the American people about their sailors
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