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“For the next couple of months, maybe it’ll be an interesting sort of gotcha,” he said.

Burr asked Martin, with a smirk suggesting he had just unshipped a “gotcha.”

Goldberg accused Gutierrez of working with the government, “to manufacture a gotcha situation to take down someone that they perceived to be on top.”

But the initial message spread far more widely, getting pickup from Democratic Party operatives as a gotcha against Hegseth—that he obviously should have known better than to use such a flawed platform.

“You just looked at me like, ‘No. Brian’s a really bad guy,’ and I remember thinking, ‘Gotcha,’ ” Peck said.