I don't think we have ever seen someone so unserious, so childish, so obviously insecure, serving as Secretary of Defense as Pete Hegseth. And that should alarm every single one of us. Secretary Hegseth loves to boast about the lethality of our forces. He wants to be taken seriously. But yesterday he posted a ridiculous tweet of a cartoon turtle firing on alleged drug traffickers. A sick parody of a well known children's book. (05:30–05:35)
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Asserts that Secretary Hegseth frequently boasts about U.S. military power.
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