“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was rattled,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Word had leaked that he was planning a classified briefing for Elon Musk on China, a revelation that infuriated President Trump and raised alarms inside the Pentagon given Musk’s business ties to Beijing.”
Said Hegseth to Adm. Christopher Grady: “I’ll hook you up to a fucking polygraph!”
“Grady was never subjected to a polygraph, and Hegseth would go on to accuse a number of other people for the leak, including Lt. Gen. Doug Sims, the Joint Staff director, who Hegseth also threatened with a polygraph test.”
“But for Hegseth, the episode marked a turning point in an already rocky tenure.“
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