. . . The henchman is Eric Geressy, a former military officer who served with Hegseth in Iraq in the mid-2000s and now works as a senior advisor to our ever-tanked Secretary of Defense. The two men are reportedly good friends, and Hegseth recently awarded Geressy with a Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during an ambush in Iraq in 2007, which is the sort of favor a SecDef can do for his warrior buddies.
Earlier this fall, the reporter, Dan Friedman, discovered that Geressy’s email address was linked to a Goodreads page for someone named Eric J. (Geressy’s middle name is Joseph.) And what a page it was! Apparently, Eric J had two major interests: accounts from soldiers about their experiences in military service and war, and “Asian wife sharing.”
. . . The Pentagon, as is standard in the Trump era, responded with a snarly statement accusing Mother Jones of hitting “a new low with this shoddy hit piece.” But in addition to a worn-out list of clichéd insults, the Pentagon has Jack Posobiec.
Posobiec has been many things in his less-than-illustrious career. Nazi troll. Conspiracy theorist. Urine sample handler. Now we can add “mouthpiece for Pete Hegseth” to the list.
Technically, he’s not supposed to be. As a reporter for wingnut “news” site Human Events, Posobiec is a member of the Pentagon press corps, which thanks to restrictions that caused all legitimate news organizations to pull their reporters off the beat, is now made up of mostly right-wing bootlickers who act more as Hegseth’s publicists than journalists.
The day after Friedman first contacted the Pentagon, Posobiec emailed him to ask if perhaps it was he who has a “creepy fetish for Asian women.” There were also other questions that mirrored the ones Friedman had sent the Pentagon about Geressy. What’s more, the deadline Posobiec gave for needing a response was the exact same time, to the minute, of the deadline Friedman had given the Pentagon. It was all part of a story about Friedman that Posobiec claimed to be writing.
. . . The funny thing is, if they had left it alone, the story would have gotten lost in the noise. With all the evil shit Hegseth and this administration get up to hourly, a guy reading cuck porn is not going to stand out, even if it might genuinely put national security at risk.
But as is typical of this crowd, they never have a backup plan in case their usual default to chest-thumping, empty threats doesn’t work. In this case, Posobiec went quiet, Geressy never responded, Friedman published his story, and it is getting more attention than it otherwise would have.