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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Hegseth warned about Trump issuing illegal military orders as a Fox contributor in 2016

As a Fox News personality, Pete Hegseth repeatedly stressed that U.S. service members were duty-bound to resist unlawful orders from a potential President Donald Trump.

Now serving as Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Hegseth is railing against Democratic members of Congress and threatening to haul at least one sitting senator into military tribunals for delivering a similar message.

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