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Pete Hegseth: “In 2022, Vladimir Putin took aggression on Ukraine once…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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LIVE Pete Hegseth holds press conference after meeting with NATO defense ministers

Published | Video Starts at 10:47

In 2014, he invaded Crimea, not during the presidency of Donald Trump over four years. There was no Russian aggression from 2016 to 2020. In 2022, Vladimir Putin took aggression on Ukraine once again, not while President Trump was President of the United States. So any suggestion that President Trump is doing anything other than negotiating from a position of strength is, on its face, ahistorical and false. (10:47–10:56)

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Asserts that Putin's aggression on Ukraine in 2022 did not occur while Trump was president.

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