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Conservative radio show host Dan Bongino has revealed that Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joni Ernst are the biggest obstacles to Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s confirmation.

Speaking this week on his radio show, he said he isn’t interested in joining the Trump administration because he doesn’t have it in him to bow down to the likes of Graham and Ernst.

“Me outside of government is better because if I wanted to get inside of government right now, I’d need the support of senators like Lindsey Graham and Joni Ernst,” he said. “And you know what — it’s not worth selling your soul over.”

Turning then to Hegseth’s nomination, he revealed based on his sources that the two are the “ringleaders” behind the attacks on him.

“Why do I bring those two up?” Bongino said. “Because very credible sources — unimpeachable sources — have told me that these are the two ringleaders behind sabotaging Pete Hegseth. And it’s disgusting because they both share one thing in common: They’ve run on the Republican Party brand.”

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Sources have likewise confirmed to Shawn Fleetwood of The Federalist that Ernst in particular “has been leading an ‘aggressive’ personal jihad against Pete Hegseth.”

“She’s waging a campaign to replace Pete with herself,” a source close to President-elect Donald Trump said.

“Ernst’s efforts included personal calls to Trump to urge him to dump Hegseth ahead of her meeting with the Army veteran on Wednesday afternoon,” Fleetwood reports. “Ernst did not tell Hegseth during her meeting with him about her efforts to derail his nomination.”

After the Wednesday meeting, Ernst published a tweet in which she praised Hegseth but stopped short of endorsing him.

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Regarding Ernst’s calls to Trump, they involved her “threatening to get all the female senators to vote against Hegseth if the president-elect didn’t pull his nomination,” according to Fleetwood.

“It wasn’t just one time,” his source said. “She’s constantly calling and nagging him.”

She also reportedly deployed Graham to “nag” Trump as well.

Graham has done himself no favors by buying into the increasingly spurious, potentially defamatory allegations against Hegseth.

Appearing on CBS News on Tuesday, he called the anonymous allegations “very disturbing.”

“I think some of these articles are very disturbing,” Graham said. “He obviously has a chance to defend himself here, but some of this stuff is going to be difficult. Some of the things have to be addressed, and we’ll see.”

He did, however, later change his tune on Twitter/X:

Ernst for her part did have a representative tell Fleetwood that these rumors/allegations about her are bogus.

“Just more Washington whispers,” the spokesperson said.

If Graham and Ernst were to indeed vote against Hegseth’s nomination, it could mean certain doom for them come reelection time, especially since it’s a confirmed fact that both had no issues confirming current Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a “woke” leftist.

As previously documented by BizPac Review, the allegations against Hegseth — that he has a drinking problem and that he once sexually assaulted a woman — are both extremely weak.

The evidence strongly suggests the woman he allegedly sexually assaulted had consented to sexual relations with him.

And the evidence further strongly suggests his supposed drinking problem has been grossly exaggerated.

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