Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has become a “top target for the left” because of his aggressive stance against DEI in the Pentagon, so no matter what he does, his enemies will continue to come for him, America First Policy Institute senior fellow Fred Fleitz said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“Staffing a Cabinet office when you’re starting from scratch, letting go all the career people, that’s difficult and there’s going to be some pitfalls,” Fleitz, appearing on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report” with former U.S. Army Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, commented.

Still, Fleitz said that he believes the Presidential Personnel Office should have better vetted senior adviser Dan Caldwell, deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll, chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, all of whom were placed on administrative leave and then fired following an investigation into leaks at the DOD. 

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