Pulp fiction at the Pentagon

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth thinks of President Donald Trump as a modern-day Jesus.

Or at least that’s what he appeared to suggest at his Pentagon briefing Thursday morning. Hegseth was customarily kinetic toward the press, but this time he reached for a Biblical comparison to smite his scribbling adversaries.

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