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Pete Hegseth: “Harvard was just horrible. I got dumber.”

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Published | Video Starts at 05:19

So don't think I'm some, you know, academic, you know, that was all secondary, thankfully. I learned a few things. Branded some great conservative professors there. And then Harvard was just horrible. I got dumber. I mean, there was no part of that experience. I was a graduate student. It was the School of Government, so it was all government, all climate change, all nonsense. (05:19–05:22)

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Asserts that his experience at Harvard was negative and intellectually diminishing.

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