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Pete Hegseth: “China probably has more people here as many or more than…”

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Pete Hegseth China is Building An Army to Defeat America.

Published | Video Starts at 05:34

And we are, we have our heads up our asses. Yeah. And that, that's, that's the. Yes. The terrorist threat of our border. By the way, China probably has more people here as many or more than these terrorist organizations plan. You know what they're doing now? They are, they have all these crypto scams. They're trying to suck all the money out of the country now. (05:34–05:40)

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Claims that China may have as many or more operatives in the U.S. as terrorist organizations.

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