
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense, sat in front of a screen with the headline: “Study Disproves Military Extremism Problem.”
It was Jan. 4 of this year and Hegseth told a Fox News audience the new study proved that the number of military service members and veterans involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection did not indicate a wider problem in the armed forces. The Pentagon-funded report to which Hegseth referred said there was no evidence the number of violent extremists in the military was “disproportionate to extremists in the general population.”