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Pete Hegseth: “It's only under President Trump's leadership during his…”

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth keynote address at the Reagan National Defense Forum.

Published | Video Starts at 05:28

… grandiose, nation building, moralistic and ruddleous wars that many of his self described acolytes led us into in the decades after Reagan left office. Wars my generation fought it. Indeed, It's only under President Trump's leadership during his first term and now that we've been able to restore America's greatness after years of suffering under the so called bipartisan consensus. which is really just a euphemism for disastrous foreign policy. Out with utopian idealism, in with hard nosed realism. To be specific, Ronald Reagan taught us the value of focused, powerful leadership. (05:28–05:39)

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Asserts that Trump's leadership restored America's greatness after previous foreign policy failures.

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