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Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees are coming under attack. They all will, I suspect, to the extent that Democrats can come up with something to use against them. Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has already been attacked an two fronts, possibly representing vulnerability on his part, or more likely simply the importance of his role.

The first line of attack is outrageous. The Associated Press, a reliable shill for the Democratic Party, doesn’t like one of Hegseth’s tattoos. Not the Jerusalem cross, but the Latin phrase “Deus Vult,” which is tattooed on his arm:

a fellow Guard member who was the unit’s security manager and on an anti-terrorism team at the time, shared with The Associated Press an email he sent to the unit’s leadership flagging a different tattoo reading “Deus Vult” that’s been used by white supremacists, concerned it was an indication of an “Insider Threat.”

Who says the phrase “has been used by white supremacists?” The AP offers no evidence. Someday I would like to meet one of these white supremacists; if you take the liberal press seriously, they must be everywhere, giving hand signals, getting tattoos, doing who knows what. All of which, evidently, the rest of us are expected to keep track of and slavishly avoid.

Actually, “Deus vult,” “God wills it” in Latin (also, “Deus lo vult”), has long been a Christian rallying cry. It goes back to the First Crusade. Nearly 1,000 years old, it has nothing to do with white supremacy.

What the AP and the Democrats really don’t like is that Hegseth exhibits a symbol of Christianity; not only that, of the Church Militant. Christians, to the extent they are admitted into polite society, are expected to keep quiet about their faith. Like Unitarians and Episcopalians.

The AP reveals its real agenda with this editorial paragraph inserted into its “news” story:

If Hegseth assumes office, it would mean that someone who has said it’s a sham that extremism is a problem in the military would oversee a sprawling department whose leadership reacted with alarm when people in tactical gear stormed up the U.S. Capitol steps on Jan. 6 in military-style stack formation. He’s also shown support for members of the military accused of war crimes and criticized the military’s justice system.

The second attack on Hegseth relates to an alleged sexual assault that supposedly happened in 2017. Once again, we will let the Associated Press be the Democrats’ mouthpiece:

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault to head off the threat of a baseless lawsuit, according to Hegseth’s lawyer.

Hegseth was accused of sexual assault in 2017 after a speaking appearance at a Republican women’s event in Monterey, California, according to a statement released by the city. No charges were filed.

In evaluating the credibility of the charge, the first question is, who is the woman who asserts it? Oh, that’s right: we don’t know.

The [Washington Post] also reported it obtained a copy of a memo sent to Trump’s transition team this past week by a woman who said she is a friend of the accuser that details the sexual assault allegations.

So this is an anonymous accusation, made seven years after the fact, by an unknown woman who is now violating a nondisclosure agreement, undoubtedly for political reasons.

Hegseth denies any impropriety, apart from the fact that he did indeed sleep with the anonymous woman. He says he was drunk and she was sober, and she initiated the encounter. Local police looked into it and did not bring any charges. Hegseth says he paid the woman a small amount at the height of the “Me Too” hysteria to avoid damage to his career at Fox News.

That certainly is plausible. Was Hegseth dumb to pay the woman anything, in return for an NDA? It was certainly dumb if he knew that seven years later he would be nominated as Secretary of Defense, but I don’t suppose that was on his radar.

We are going to see many more smears of these kinds as Democrats seek, not so much to block Trump from staffing his administration, but to discredit the administration before it takes office.