President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and military veteran, as his pick for defense secretary. The Morning Joe panel discusses.
I’ve been trying not to get too wound up every time Donald Trump announces a nominee for a position in his new administration. We knew his choices would be absurd. We knew most senior officials in his last administration endorsed Kamala Harris. We knew it would cause him to scrape the bottom of the barrel for sycophants and grifters this time. We knew it was coming. And yet. Trump’s selection of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as secretary of defense is gum-in-your-lap shocking.
Before that event, 12 National Guard members were removed from the inauguration’s security team after being vetted by the FBI. Hegseth later admitted that he was one of the 12. “Members of my unit in leadership deemed that I was an extremist or a white nationalist,” he said, blaming it on his “Jerusalem Cross tattoo.” However, what may have caught the bureau’s eye is the “Deus Vult” tattoo on Hegseth’s bicep, a Crusader motto now widely used by white supremacists and Christian nationalists.
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