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Pete Hegseth: “There was a lot of spill trade work going on under the…”

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From Wall Street to Iraq The Pete Hegseth UNCENSORED Story

Published | Video Starts at 00:53

Just a regular old dude. And within a matter of months I'm in a Black Hawk in a night air assault raid. You know, in Baghdad, while we were fighting at war, There was a lot of spill trade work going on under the surface inside America, domestically that had changed our country. Memories from Afghanistan. What did you take away from the Afghanistan experience that was different from the Iraq experience? So I had the opposite. I went into Afghanistan pretty optimistic and I left very pessimistic. (00:53–00:59)

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Asserts that domestic trade work during the Iraq War changed the country.

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