Pete Hegseth Is Destined to Be Trump’s Midterm Fall Guy

Summary

“Listen, Gutman, we’ve absolutely got to give them a victim. There’s no way out of it. Let’s give them the punk.” He nodded pleasantly at the boy in the doorway. “He actually did shoot both of them—Thursby and Jacobi—didn’t he? Anyway, he’s made to order for the part. Let’s pin the necessary evidence on him and turn him over to them.” — Sam Spade to Kasper Gutman in The Big Sleep , Dashiell Hammett, 1930 This scene from Dashiell Hammett’s great crime novel, and, of course, the classic Humphrey Bogart film made from it in 1941, has been running through my head as I contemplate what will happen…

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