Conservatives railed against the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Wednesday, after it was reported that the academy told a left-wing journalist that Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, was never accepted into the school, which is false.
As reported by The Daily Wire, Hegseth scooped ProPublica, which was preparing to publish a story about Hegseth supposedly lying about getting into West Point. After Hegseth posted a photo of his acceptance letter, ProPublica said West Point’s public relations office told them twice on the record that Hegseth never even applied to the academy. However, after Hegseth sent the outlet his acceptance letter, ProPublica ignored the story.
Quickly, some online questioned why ProPublica didn’t publish the story about West Point giving them false information. West Point was also criticized for what the academy called an…
