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turbinetree

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Mon Mar 30, 2026, 09:42 PM Monday

'Fire this idiot': Hegseth under fire over report he sought defense stocks before Iran war [View all]

By Robert Davis
Published March 30, 2026 9:19 PM ET

Political analysts and observers were aghast on Monday after a new report revealed that President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary has reached a new "height of criminality."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's stockbroker looked into purchasing a defense-related fund ahead of the Trump administration launching its self-described "excursion" in Iran, the Financial Times reported, citing "three people familiar with the matter."

"Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February about making a multimillion-dollar investment in the asset manager’s Defense Industrials Active ETF, the people said, shortly before the U.S. launched military action against Tehran," the report reads in part.

https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2676640592/

To every maga senator that voted to place this corrupt individual into power and has now gone full bore to place citizens lives in danger.............in Iran................do you think that if you have any morality you would bring this sycophant back into your committee,, bring Blackrock in for questioning and ask him and them some questions of trying to profit off dead people is not funny.........and somewhere the traitor running the show knew about this.............there is absolutely know end to this BS................

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