From the Raw Story:
“Donald Trump is surrounded by anti-Catholic bigots,” ex-GOP political strategist Steve Schmidt said on his podcast on Saturday. “First and foremost by Pete Hegseth.” Schmidt and Canadian radio personality Dean Blundell were mocking Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s botched visit with Pope Leo earlier in the week when Schmidt turned his ire to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
As the Trump administration tries to fall in the good graces of the first American Pope, an ex-GOP operative is shaking his head at the fact that he employs what he called one big ‘anti-Catholic bigot’ in particular. In particular, he called out how Hegseth had “the audacity, the extremism, the license that the guy feels that, ‘I’m going to cancel the Catholic Good Friday service at the Pentagon at the chapel.” Schmidt was referring to when Hegseth decided to hold Protestant-only services in early April.