Comment by nl

I think this is oversimplifying things.

There are many different factions within the administration. Sacks was part of the "deregulate the tech sector" faction, which on this issue is aligned with the "beating China overrides anything" faction.

That's distinct from the Pete Hegseth faction (I don't really know how to characterize his faction other than anti-woke maybe?).

Sometimes these factions agree, sometimes they don't.

In general your approach is right - you can't trust most things coming out of this administration. But you can try to unpick was actually happened by who is saying what, when. That is useful even without liking the people.