{"id":71344,"date":"2026-04-10T05:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/pete-hegseth-is-a-disaster-of-a-defense-secretary-its-no-surprise-margaret-sullivan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:55:30","slug":"pete-hegseth-is-a-disaster-of-a-defense-secretary-its-no-surprise-margaret-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/pete-hegseth-is-a-disaster-of-a-defense-secretary-its-no-surprise-margaret-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth is a disaster of a defense secretary. It\u2019s no surprise | Margaret Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Fox host has misled the public, prayed for violence and clashed with the press. This is not a serious military leader<\/p>\n<p>With his jawline firm and his hair coiffed, Pete Hegseth was a good fit as a Fox News personality.<\/p>\n<p>As the defense secretary \u2013 or Secretary of War, as his boss, Donald Trump would have it \u2013 he\u2019s disastrous.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/apr\/10\/pete-hegseth-defense-secretary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Fox host has misled the public, prayed for violence and clashed with the press. This is not a serious military leader With his jawline firm and his hair coiffed, Pete Hegseth was a good fit as a Fox News personality. As the defense secretary \u2013 or Secretary of War, as his boss, Donald &#8230; <a title=\"Pete Hegseth is a disaster of a defense secretary. It\u2019s no surprise | Margaret Sullivan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/pete-hegseth-is-a-disaster-of-a-defense-secretary-its-no-surprise-margaret-sullivan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pete Hegseth is a disaster of a defense secretary. It\u2019s no surprise | Margaret Sullivan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}