There are many ways for a nation to disgrace itself, none more efficient than war makers dabbling in profiteering. If recent allegations against DefSec Hegseth are half true, we face a scandal, a spectacle, of epic proportions.
According to the Financial Times, Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley explored a multimillion-dollar investment in a defense-focused ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) managed by BlackRock—weeks before President Trump launched a major military campaign in Iran. In other words, a financial broker went sniffing around on Hegseth’s behalf, hoping to tuck a multi-million dollar sum into a basket of defense stocks, just before Trump unleashed the dogs of war.
A Hegseth spokesman at the Pentagon insists the whole affair is “entirely false and fabricated.” Sure.
