With the political news having largely died down over the holidays in favor of travel, Jimmy Carter remembrances, and the New Orleans terror attack, talk of the second Trump transition has subsided, leaving Friday’s Good Morning America to bring it back to the forefront as ABC boasted to viewers they still plan to try and sink Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth.
Co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos pivoted from President Biden blocking the sale of U.S. Steel and the speakership fight in the House to confirmations with this comment to ABC’s lead Biden apple polisher, Mary Bruce: “Many of President-Elect Trump’s picks for cabinet positions also facing controversy. Pete Hegseth, the choice for defense secretary, the Senate committee is now digging deeper into his background.”
Bruce shared the network had “learned exclusively…
