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Wesley Hunt: “Women weren't given the right to drive until five years ago…”

Featuring: Wesley Hunt, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 38

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Rep. Wesley Hunt talks immigration, gun rights in US Senate campaign

Published | Video Starts at 12:39

The people that say that their religion Saudi Arabia and realized that there were public beheadings, the public beheadings just 10 years ago. The people that say that don't understand that Women weren't given the right to drive until five years ago [in Saudi Arabia]. When I was stationed in 2012, women were not even allowed to operate a motor vehicle. If you live in these regions and you go there, you understand what I'm talking about. (12:39–12:44)

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Asserts that women in Saudi Arabia were not allowed to drive until five years ago.

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