Pete Hegseth: “I was not fired. I was not pushed out. There were no…”

“But ultimately, you know, all of those allegations, again, anonymously, anonymously given, totally unsourced, fly in the face of the overarching trajectory of that organization. I want to get to the end of that as well. I was not fired. I was not pushed out. There were no allegations of impropriety. There were no allegations of excessive drinking. That was. I was. I knew all the people above us in the hierarchy of that. Ultimately, I think it was actually.” (44:32–44:38)

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