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From the Daily Mail: A pro-MAGA reporter who criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s treatment of the press at the Pentagon lost her job after speaking out.
Gabrielle Cuccia is a proud ‘MAGA girl’ who has long been outspoken about her adoration of President Trump.
But while working as the chief Pentagon correspondent at pro-Trump television channel One America News, Cuccia published a tell-all article to her personal Substack channel about the pitfalls of Hegseth’s leadership.
‘If you want the best case study for the death of the MAGA movement — look no further than the Department of Defense,’ she wrote.
Cussia had accused Hegseth of blocking media access after the Signal chat scandal, criticized him for his “lack of transparency” and said he failed to hold press conferences. She claimed Hegseth’s staff would deliberately hide details of his schedule until it was too late for reporters to attend.
The Daily Mail added:
Her article was published on Monday. By Thursday, her boss had asked her to hand in her Pentagon access badge, and on Friday she was fired, she told CNN.
🚨BREAKING: @SecDef reduces access to press moving forward. https://t.co/0JjJyBk9lG
— Gabrielle Cuccia (@gabbycuccia) May 23, 2025
🚨BREAKING: Pentagon Press Association responds to @SecDef’s memo.
“There is no way to sugarcoat it. Today’s memo by Secretary Hegseth appears to be a direct attack on the freedom of the press and America’s right to know what its military is doing.
The Pentagon Press… https://t.co/tXw2yAWzek pic.twitter.com/6zVDHD8Ghn
— Gabrielle Cuccia (@gabbycuccia) May 24, 2025
Gabrielle Cuccia, briefly OAN’s chief Pentagon correspondent, criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s press crackdown—then was swiftly fired. At a network that champions “freedom,” dissent apparently comes with an expiration date. pic.twitter.com/ZyNN3A52oQ
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) May 31, 2025
In a Substack post on Tuesday, @gabbycuccia wrote that new policy making vast parts of the Pentagon off-limits to journalists was a “troubling shift.” Evidently someone disagreed. On Thursday “I was asked to turn in my Pentagon badge to my bureau chief.” https://t.co/m0j3Jhys9E
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 31, 2025
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