3 sources of information said Over the weekend, CBS News reported that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R.S. It was reported that the party leader had informally confirmed this with President-elect Donald Trump. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth will receive the votes needed to be confirmed as defense secretary.
Nevertheless, Democrats, especially Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), made the most of this opportunity and gallantly won the Combat Infantryman Medal, two Bronze Stars, and two Army Commendation Medals. They seem intent on further defaming the person who did it.
Warren sent 33 page letter In a letter to Mr. Hegseth late Monday, he recycled the establishment's go-to slur and laid bare the nature of Democrats' likely final attack on the decorated veteran during his confirmation hearing on Jan. 14.
“I am deeply concerned by the many ways in which your actions and rhetoric demonstrate that you are unfit to lead the Department of Defense,” Warren wrote, adding that UnitedHealthcare's chief executive officer I just felt sorry for the murder suspect of (CEO) Brian Thompson. “These are the qualities we should be looking for in our next Secretary of Defense. However, your past actions and statements demonstrate that you are incapable of effectively leading this organization and adequately supporting our service members. There is.”
Warren's woke cross-examination included more than 70 accusations submitted as questions to Hegseth, divided into several accusatory sections. It included a section attacking Hegseth's organizational management of Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America. how much he drinks. be 2017 sexual assault allegations It was never prosecuted and has been repeatedly denounced as false by Hegseth's lawyers. and prioritized the safety of American soldiers over the perceived battlefield rights of enemy combatants.
In other sections, Warren sought to frame Hegseth's general proposals for how to depoliticize and improve the military as disqualifying. For example, leftist senators slandered Hegseth as a misogynist for suggesting that men are physically stronger than women. Expanding combat roles to women “hasn't made us more effective, it hasn't made us more lethal, it has made fighting more complex,” he said. And affirmative action, pursued to make recruiters “feel good about themselves,” has “nothing to do with national security.”
When she complained about Hegseth's views on women in the military, Warren also successfully pushed a question about the defense secretary nominee's views on abortion. “Do you support military personnel having the right to make reproductive health decisions?”
Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee's Personnel Subcommittee, went on to discuss medical cross-dressing in the military and “transgender” people in the Pentagon after stirring up concerns about female soldiers still being capable of killing unborn children. He took issue with Hegseth's comments regarding the acceptance of insanity. . ”
“That's exactly what American voters rejected on November 5th.”
contradict the conclusion February 22, 2018, Department of Defense memo Then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis said, “Allowing the enrollment and retention of individuals with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria who require or have received treatment to change their gender has significant implications.'' There are risks involved.” Warren speculated that Hegseth was on board, arguing that President Trump's reinstatement of the medical cross-dressing ban would “undermine our military.”
Warren said the Pentagon has been essentially “apolitical” in recent years, and has been plagued by woke incompetence, including ideologically captured Pentagon officials involved in President Joe Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. They argued that Mr. Hegseth was poised to politicize the Pentagon by purging some of its generals.
of gun control supporter Also featured is Hegseth's defense of American servicemen accused of war crimes, his instructions to his platoon, “Guys, if you see an enemy you believe is a threat, engage and destroy the threat,” and his I also took issue with the comments. In “Fighting the Warrior,” he says, “Just as we fight bad guys, modern combatants should fight lawyers. Our enemies should take bullets, not lawyers.”
“If confirmed as Secretary of Defense, will you commit to upholding the Geneva Conventions and other international laws governing the conduct of war?” Warren asked. “Do you think military personnel should ignore directives that limit the amount of time they can fire?”
Before concluding a lengthy effort to portray virtue as vice, Warren asked Hegseth if he intended to oppose America's withdrawal from NATO and the United Nations, citing his proposal in his book, The American Crusade. He condemned the apparent intolerance of Islamic extremists. Islam is viewed primarily by radicals, who claim that it is “not a religion of peace or violence. It is a religion of obedience.”
Warren asked Hegseth to submit written answers to the questions by January 10 and be prepared to answer them during her Senate nomination hearing.
Brian Hughes, a spokesman for Trump's transition team, said: said In a statement obtained by The Associated Press, Warren's letter is “exactly what American voters rejected on November 5th. Instead of focusing on 'woke' policies that weakened our national defense, voters , gave us the mandate to rebuild the military. That's exactly what we're doing.” That's exactly what a reform-minded defense secretary like Pete Hegseth would do. ”
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