Der Vater eines toten Soldaten sagt, er habe Hegseth nie gesagt, er solle „den Job im Iran zu Ende bringen“.

*NO SHAME*

„The father of a dead U.S. serviceman has denied [claims by Pete Hegseth that he told the Defense Secretary ](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-iran-war-press-conference-b2941789.html)to “not stop until the job is done” – referring to the [war](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/war) in [Iran](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/iran).“

“No, I didn’t say anything along those lines,” Charles Simmons [told NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/father-servicemember-killed-iran-war-never-told-hegseth-finish-the-job-rcna264297) in an interview Thursday, recalling his encounter with Hegseth at the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. “I can’t speak for the other families. When he spoke to me, that was not something we talked about.”

„Hegseth kicked off another angry [and at times desperate-sounding](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hegseth-iran-war-update-trump-b2941883.html) press conference Thursday morning by paying tribute to the service members who have been killed in the conflict, which is now approaching the end of its third week.“

“What I heard through tears, through hugs, through strength and through unbreakable resolve was the same from family after family,” Hegseth said. “They said, ‘finish this.’ Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done,” Hegseth said.“

„Simmons said he told Hegseth: “I understand there’s a lot of peril that goes into making decisions like this, and I just certainly hope the decisions being made are necessary,” according to NBC.“

„Hegseth’s claim about receiving the backing of the families is similar to comments Trump made earlier this month following the first dignified transfer – the return of American service members’ bodies to U.S. soil.“

„Speaking to reporters following the ceremony on March 7, Trump said that “every single one” of the families had told him: “Finish the job, sir. Please, finish the job.”

„A public official who was present and overheard the president’s exchanges with the family members told NBC News they did not hear anyone tell Trump to “finish the job” in Iran.“

„The president was also heavily criticized by many online, including former RNC chair Michael Steele, after being pictured wearing a baseball cap to the solemn event. The hat, a white baseball cap with gold lettering spelling out “USA”, is part of his line of branded merchandise.“

Christ, just when you think these hobgoblins couldn’t get any more ghoulish they somehow manage to top themselves.

The entire Trump admin is just surrounded by big strong men constantly crying and telling them to start wars.

Its funny to watch everyday Trump and Co. getting debunked in real time!

Trump Tactic #716: Claim people make statements and put the onus on them to disavow it and trigger the MAGA crowd to threaten them and the family for being unpatriotic.

So, you’re saying that a member of the Trump administration lied, using a dead American servicemember’s family as a prop for their narrative?

No, they’d never do that…right?

Right?

Now, now. Let’s give Hegseth the benefit of the doubt on this one. He’s not lying, he was probably just drunk off his gourd, and misheard what was said. No biggie…

The GOP using service members as a political prop? Shocked! I’m shocked and outraged! It’s so shocking!

But not really. Not at all.

Kegsbreath was probably drunk as fuck when he was talking to the servicemen families. Also, Kegsbreath and Keystone, I hope you see this:

NEITHER of y’all deserve to be in the presence of these troops…at all. Go pound sand.

Now the republicans will attack this gold star father for not pretending he said it.

Of course he didn’t. Why would any parent ever say that?

„Yes, please do this to other parents so that you can seem tough. Destroying that country for no reason WIll make it okay that my son is dead.“

Did anyone actually believe Hegseth when he said that? Nobody who lost their child would say that.

It is very complicated as a Gold Star family. My dad was MIA in Vietnam in ’67. I still think about him nearly every day even 60 years later. Anger towards the government was not an immediate reaction to his loss but came only years and decades later. But then, we weren’t being lied to so blatantly either. The official report was and still is that they were shot down by enemy fire in hostile territory. Not only do I still feel that the entire conflict was unjust we have since learned, not through the Corp but from other families, that the loss of the chopper he was co-piloting with ten Marines aboard may have been a mechanical failure of an aircraft adapted from civilian use that should never have been in combat in the first place. Senseless loss compounded of course, but yet I am still somehow proud of his service to the country. Blaming LBJ’s admin has never entered my mind.

I really hate that guy.

Again, everything he says is said for the sake of being a soundbyte.  That soundbyte in turn is meant to make 10-year olds think he is a badass.

>Simmons told NBC that he had spoken to Hegseth and President Donald Trump, and that both men had treated him warmly. He had mostly spoken about his son’s impressive service record, he said.

So he is an idiot but not *this* level of idiot

We have learned nothing about war and its relationship to power and money. Pete Hegseth is a spokesman for the master class, a gutless puppet, and a first class liar to boot.. The people he hears speaking words of encouragement are the voices of military contractors..