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Pete Hegseth: “We've seen under Obama and then fast forward under Biden is…”

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Trump Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth EXPOSES SABOTAGE of America! Kirk Cameron on TBN

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You believe your senior leaders will defend and make sure you have everything you need. The training, the accountability, the excellence, the lethality. It's an ultimate meritocracy. And what We've seen under Obama and then fast forward under Biden is an erosion of that meritocracy in pursuit of social justice or social experiments. that has created a fragile military that is not as capable as people think. We're in uncharted territory as a society. (01:43–01:53)

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Asserts that military meritocracy has eroded under Obama and Biden due to social justice policies.

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