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Trump may be preparing to throw another top official under the bus: insider
What happened
AlterNet reports that former Republican strategist Sarah Longwell believes President Donald Trump may eventually push Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth out to absorb public anger over the Iran war. She named Hegseth as the likeliest “sacrificial lamb,” while warning that voters would not accept him as the person ultimately responsible.
Longwell based her assessment on focus groups with people who voted for Trump in 2024. According to her, those voters increasingly connect the continuing war, military deaths, higher gas prices, and rising household costs directly to Trump—who had…
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