"Gaetz, of course, was appointed by Trump to be attorney general, a job Trump explicitly views as being his lawyer a toady meant to run cover for him first and foremost. Remember what happened to Jeff Sessions? Loomer, Posobiec, and so many others make their livings entirely off of keeping a pro-Trump audience happy and are financially incentivized to toe the line, attack the left, and never spark the ire of Trump or their viewers."
"They also happened to temper Trump's worst impulses, which led to Trump firing Mark Esper after he refused to go along with Trump's 2020 stolen election claims. In Hegseth, Trump has found someone who not only dropped the guardrails for him, but seems to delight in pushing the boundaries even further than Trump might like to go. Trump made clear this week he would not have wanted a second deadly strike on survivors of an already disabled drug-running boat. Hegseth has defended that strike"
MAGA-aligned influencers occupied the Pentagon press briefing room and supplanted traditional journalists, with many displaying clear loyalty to President Trump. Several of the new press corps members earn livelihoods from catering to a pro-Trump audience and are financially incentivized to avoid antagonizing Trump. Trump appointed Pete Hegseth, a culture-war figure, as defense secretary and retitled the role secretary of war, departing from prior nonpartisan, experienced defense leaders. Past defense secretaries tempered presidential impulses; the new leadership has relaxed those guardrails and publicly defended controversial military actions that the president said he would not have wanted.
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