After last night's Senate vote that called for VP JD Vance to cast the tiebreaker, Pete Hegseth is now officially the new Secretary of Defense:

Axios has a story about how the odds for a Hegseth confirmation changed rather rapidly:

It wouldn't at least partly have something to do with the media pushing a smear job about Hegseth and his ex-wife that even the ex-wife denied but reporting it anyway, would it?

Many are confused because the smears didn't resonate enough.

But they sure tried anyway.

Axios was among the media outlets that tried their best:

Forget that Hegseth's ex-wife denied all that, they had some journalisming to do!

We're going to guess Dems and the media have learned nothing from the last few months, and that's not necessarily a bad thing for the Republic.

But the bottom line is...

That alone is enough to cause PTSD.