Jeffrey Goldberg
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Like, what is this BS?
Yeah.
Also, I already know if I want to, but I don't want to know.
I have enough information.
It's like, Mike, you – Mike and Pete, you drop the bombs.
I'll try to – whatever.
But –
The point is that Hegseth was performing in that chat in the same way that he performs to the public.
And I literally thought, as I'm watching the thing unfold, if I talk to myself, which I don't, but if I did talk to myself, I would have been sitting there saying to my phone, Pete, you're the actual defense secretary.
You don't have to play defense secretary.
You do have this power.
We all recognize that you can bomb shit.
You know what I mean?
And he was like showing off for J.D.
Vance.
I got all the look.
Listen to me using all my, you know, the bombing begins now, you know, kind of rhetoric.
And that's what you see.
He only has like one performance mode.
Right.