Did Defense Secretary Hegseth Allegedly Try to Cash In on a War He Was About to Start?

The Broker Allegedly Called BlackRock in February. The Fund Held Every Major Weapons Maker in America. The Bombs Started Falling on February 28.

The Financial Times published a report on March 30, 2026, alleging that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Morgan Stanley broker contacted BlackRock in February 2026 about a multimillion-dollar investment in the iShares Defense Industrials Active ETF (ticker: IDEF), weeks before the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran began February 28, 2026. The fund was launch…