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Pete Hegseth: “Real toxic leadership is promoting people based on immutable…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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It is our duty, consistent with our constitutional oath. Real toxic leadership is endangering subordinates with low standards. Real toxic leadership is promoting people based on immutable characteristics or quotas instead of based on merit. Real toxic leadership is promoting destructive ideologies that are an anathema to the Constitution and the laws of nature and nature's God. (22:30–22:37)

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Asserts that promoting based on characteristics or quotas rather than merit is considered toxic leadership.

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