Trump to visit California as he criticizes governor; most Americans don’t approve of Elon Musk’s ‘department’ – live
Trump criticised Gavin Newsom and other officials’ management of water supply; poll finds only one-third of US adults have a favourable view of Musk
In a series of newly unearthed podcasts, Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, appears to endorse the theocratic and authoritarian doctrine of “sphere sovereignty”, a worldview derived from the extremist beliefs of Christian reconstructionism (CR) and espoused by churches aligned with far-right Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson.
In the recordings, Hegeth rails against “cultural Marxism”, feminism, “critical race theory”, and even democracy itself, which he says “our founders blatantly rejected as being completely dangerous”.
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