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Pete Hegseth: “That entire story is false, has been from the beginning and…”

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BREAKING NEWS: Elizabeth Warren Grills Pete Hegseth On Allegation He Tried To Profit From Iran War

Published | Video Starts at 00:20

The Financial Times reported that your broker tried to buy hundreds of shares in a BlackRock fund invested in defense companies just before the war began. The law clearly prohibits the secretary. That entire story is false, has been from the beginning and was made up out of whole cloth. And anybody that looks at it sees how it was worded from the beginning to make it look like I was involved in something I had nothing to do and never have. (00:20–00:25)

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Asserts that the story about his financial dealings related to the Iran war is entirely false.

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