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Lewis & Sykes: Pete Hegseth Is In Real Trouble. Maybe.

A recording from Charlie Sykes and Matt Lewis's live video

On a special MONDAY Substack LIVE conversation, Charlie and Matt discuss:

  • Is Pete Hegseth finished? A shocking Washington Post report alleges he ordered a missile strike that intentionally killed unarmed survivors clinging to wreckage — a potential war crime.

  • Trump’s decades-long obsession with extrajudicial killings and why this is “Trumpism in full”

  • The staggering hypocrisy: Trump pardons Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández — a convicted cocaine kingpin who took $1M from El Chapo — while threatening war on “narco-terrorists”

  • Trump’s approval plunges to 36–38% — the historic free-fall even on his strongest issues: Why second terms collapse & Trump’s hubris looks identical to late-stage authoritarian overreach

  • Jamie Dimon and corporate America begin quietly hedging against future Democratic DOJ accountability

  • Ukraine sellout: Jared Kushner & Steve Witkoff caught carving up Ukrainian assets with Russian sovereign-wealth fund

  • The tragic D.C. shooting of two National Guardsmen by an Afghan national — and Trump’s immediate leap to collective guilt & racism

  • And MUCH more!

Thank you Caro Henry, Mandy Ohman, ann schneider, P. J. Schuster, Jeanne Elbe, and many others for tuning into my live video with Matt Lewis! Join me for my next live video in the app.

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