The Republican senator Markwayne Mullin deflected Tapper’s questions by blaming media.
Sunday, Mullin said journalists had been “hypocritical” by questioning Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick for once admitting that he would use alcohol as self-medication while serving in the US Army.
The first clip from a recent interview on the Megyn Kelly showed Hegseth claiming he did not suffer from alcoholism and “never sought counseling.” The second clip showed Hegseth on the “Will Cain Show” podcast in 2021 saying he would turn to drinking at the end of the day when he served in the army. “They get out of the service in their back, and they’re sitting there twiddle their tongues. They’ve had a lot of experiences that the regular population doesn’t. They have these memories, these thoughts, these sounds, the smells that are still coming back to them and they turn to drinking with their buddies. That doesn’t mean that they had a drinking problem.”“They should put themselves in their shoes and every other combat veteran’s shoes,” he said.
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