Why Trump’s Hegseth Problem Exposes His Fatal Flaw: Author

Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/Reuters Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon train wreck exposes one of Donald Trump’s most self-destructive impulses, the president’s biographer says. Hegseth, the 46-year-old Fox News host-turned-defense secretary, has transformed the Pentagon into a pressure cooker of leak crackdowns and culture war crusades while steering the nation deeper into Trump’s quagmire war with Iran. After Hegseth, who wants everyone to call him “Secretary of…