Pentagon Mocks Fox’s Claims About Taylor Swift

Politico reports:

There may be bad blood between Taylor Swift and Fox News — but the Pentagon is coming to her defense. The Department of Defense on Wednesday responded after Fox News host Jesse Watters suggested this week that pop star Taylor Swift could be “a front for a covert political agenda.”

But on Wednesday, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh pushed back against Watters’ claim, referencing one of Swift’s big hits by saying in a statement, “as for this conspiracy theory, we are going to shake it off.”

“But that does highlight that we still need Congress to approve our supplemental budget request as Swift-ly as possible so we can be out of the woods with potential fiscal concerns,” Singh added.

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