As soon as President-elect Donald Trump had nominated Fox News host Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense, the legacy media unleashed a torrent of breathless stories about Hegseth’s “extremism” because he displays tattoos of the Jerusalem Cross and “Deus vult,” a Latin phrase associated with the Crusades.
The Associated Press reported that a fellow service member had flagged Hegseth as a possible “Insider Threat” due to “a tattoo on his bicep that’s associated with white supremacist groups.”
But are the tattoos really associated with white supremacists, or is that just what far-Left activists want you to think?
Retired Master Sgt. DeRicko Gaither, serving as the D.C. Army National Guard’s physical security manager in 2021, flagged the “Deus vult” tattoo to authorities before Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021, and as a result, Hegseth…