Virus Posting Share with x Claims Secretary of Defense Pete Hegses is said to have removed Colin Powell’s name from the list of prominent Americans buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Pete Hegses removed Colin Powell’s name from the list of prominent Americans buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Hegseth also removed names of all people and all women of color on the same list. Only the white men were left in place. pic.twitter.com/fzlv8gdus9
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Verdict: False
Powell’s name is included in the list of prominent Americans buried in Arlington under the “Politics and Government” section of the cemetery website.
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Virginia Democrat Sen. Mark Warner has called for Hegses and national security adviser Mike Waltz to step down after being added to a private signal chat about the intended military strike by journalists. hill. Warner called the mistake “sloppy, careless and incompetent behaviour,” the outlet reported.
X-Post, which received more than 8 million views at the time of writing, is said to have removed Powell’s name from the list of prominent Americans buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
“Pete Hegses removed Colin Powell’s name from the list of prominent Americans buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Hegses removed the names of all people of color and all women on the same list. This post does not include any sources to support that claim.
The claim is false. Powell’s name is included in the list of prominent Americans buried in Arlington.Politics and government” Cemetery website section. Similarly, update The post on the website on March 19th reiterates that no one has been removed from the list of prominent Americans buried in Arlington.
“Arlington National Cemetery is actively working to update the content of our website and education programs in accordance with executive orders issued by the President and the Department of Defense,” the update begins.
“We want to make it clear that service members have not been permanently removed from the ‘Prominent Graves’ section of our website. These pages highlight historically important personal stories, with accuracy and commemoration of service and sacrifice. and engineering’ (to name a few), based on historic contributions to our country.”
Furthermore, on March 20th, Heggs With label claimed as “fake” via his personal X account @petehegseth. Plus, check your facts There are no reliable news reports To support claims. In fact, the opposite is true. March 25th, Politifact I exposed the claim. (Related: Did Trump order the Keystone Pipeline to “only transport American oil”?)
It’s not the first time he’s ever made a false claim about Hegseth’s circulating online. Hegseth claims to have classified everything and check out your facts about images shared on Facebook previously exposed [of the] Benghazi Files. ”
