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“Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth testified during his confirmation hearing this month that he wasn’t aware of any nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) in connection with his two divorces. While a review of court documents from Hegseth’s divorce from his second wife, Samantha Hegseth, does not reflect a full NDA, it includes a court-ordered agreement precluding either of them from saying anything publicly that would disparage the other. …”

www.msnbc.com

Pete Hegseth’s divorce agreement with his second wife includes a non-disparagement clause

Pete and Samantha Hegseth’s 2018 divorce decree prohibits each of them from engaging in “any public discourse ... disparaging the other party.”
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“… Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, a Democratic member of the Armed Services Committee, had asked the Trump Cabinet pick during the Jan. 14 confirmation hearing whether there were NDAs between him and his first wife, Meredith Schwarz, or his second wife, Samantha Hegseth.

“Senator, it is not something I am aware of,” Pete Hegseth responded. Pressed whether he would release either of those women from the NDAs if they exist, Hegseth said, “Senator, that is not my responsibility.”

A July 2018 Minnesota state court divorce decree reveals that Hegseth has agreed to limits on what he and his second wife, Samantha Hegseth, whom he was married to from 2010 to 2017, can say about each other in public. (He has been married to Jennifer Rauchet since 2019.)

That decree, which is publicly available through Minnesota’s online court files, reflects findings of fact and conclusions of law and constitutes a court judgment.

… The agreement further states each “will refrain from engaging themselves in any public discourse, including through either traditional media or social media, disparaging the other party,” and it obligates them to “take reasonable steps to encourage friends and family to refrain from doing so.” …”

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She was free to say nice things, though, so he was not lying, right?

BTW, good job FBI reviewer who missed this public record?
 
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“… When reached for comment about the language of the divorce decree, a lawyer for Pete Hegseth, Tim Parlatore, wrote: “This is not a non-disclosure agreement, it is a limited non-disparagement agreement. These are two legally distinct concepts and there is nothing inappropriate or inaccurate about Mr. Hegseth’s answers to the committee. It takes some significant imagination and intellectual dishonesty for anyone to consider this to bear on the credibility of his testimony.” …”
 
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“… The memo, signed Thursday night by the acting head of the Homeland Security Department, offers ICE officers a road map on how to use expansive powers that were long reserved only for encounters at the southern border to quickly remove migrants. It also appears to give the officers the ability to expel migrants in two major Biden-era programs that have allowed more than a million people to enter the country temporarily.

Those programs — an app called CBP One that migrants could use to try to schedule appointments to enter the United States, and an initiative that let in certain migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti — were key pillars of the Biden administration’s efforts to discourage illegal entries by allowing certain legal pathways. Immigrant advocates also worried that the memo could apply to Afghan and Ukrainian immigrants brought to the United States under separate programs. …”

So, again, not just violent criminals, but also people who entered in accordance with the rules. But they’re eating the pets, or so I hear.
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Springfield may be about to see what an invasion REALLY looks like. And have its economy gutted at the same time.
 
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My vague sense is that the EO tracks the two-person dissent from Wong Kim Ark, which basically settled the birthright citizenship question back in 1898. So MAGA is now literally reaching back to failed arguments from the 19th century to take constitutional rights away.
 
rodoheel said:
Imagine someone saying with a straight face that they're "aspirationally Jewish" and "Jewish by association" in response to claims of antisemitism, lol. Next-level version of "lots of my friends are black!"
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He’s like George Santos. He’s Jew-ish.
 
lawtig02 said:
My vague sense is that the EO tracks the two-person dissent from Wong Kim Ark, which basically settled the birthright citizenship question back in 1898. So MAGA is now literally reaching back to failed arguments from the 19th century to take constitutional rights away.
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rodoheel said:
Appropriate to this thread, here’s a piece about why it doesn’t matter if Trump et al are literally Nazis, as their immigration policies in particular display classic fascist tendencies:

slate.com

Turns Out Everyone Was Wrong About the “Resistance” to Trump This Time

This is not shaping up to be the kind of regime that you want to be remembered for collaborating with.
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After a recent relisten of about ten hours worth of Mussolini podcasts, the number of similarities with ttump are so high as to be scripted. It’s like Stephen Miller and Heritage have taken Mussolini vignettes out of an eighth grade history textbook, enter them into the teleprompter, and their Manchurian candidate brings it to life.

I mean, we’re talking down to the exaggerated white bandage on a superficial head wound, following an assassination attempt.
 


[For folks who aren’t lawyers and don’t follow SCOTUS ever:

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Healing said:
After a recent relisten of about ten hours worth of Mussolini podcasts, the number of similarities with ttump are so high as to be scripted. It’s like Stephen Miller and Heritage have taken Mussolini vignettes out of an eighth grade history textbook, enter them into the teleprompter, and their Manchurian candidate brings it to life.

I mean, we’re talking down to the exaggerated white bandage on a superficial head wound, following an assassination attempt.
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Would genuinely love to hear more — maybe this thread can become a weird overlaps catch-all (not because I object to discussing it here but because that topic and your post seem to dovetail nicely):

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Politics Post in thread '“Night of Camp David” - was forgotten 1965 novel accidentally prophetic?'

I bought that book during Trump's first term but never got around to reading it. I guess it's time for me to take it off the shelf and begin to read...
 
Healing said:
After a recent relisten of about ten hours worth of Mussolini podcasts, the number of similarities with ttump are so high as to be scripted. It’s like Stephen Miller and Heritage have taken Mussolini vignettes out of an eighth grade history textbook, enter them into the teleprompter, and their Manchurian candidate brings it to life.

I mean, we’re talking down to the exaggerated white bandage on a superficial head wound, following an assassination attempt.
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I guess they skipped the end.
 
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