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Hegseth takes on Democrat ‘smear campaign’ at Senate confirmation hearing

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by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News January 14, 2025

In his opening statement at Tuesday’s Senate confirmation hearing, Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s selection for Secretary of Defense, stated:

Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth

“A small handful of anonymous sources were allowed to drive a smear campaign and agenda about me, because our left wing media in America today, sadly, doesn’t care about the truth. All they were out to do [was] to destroy me. And why do they want to destroy me? Because I’m a change agent and a threat to them, because Donald Trump was willing to choose me, to empower me, to bring the Defense Department back to what it really should be, which is war fighting,

“So I’m willing to endure these attacks, but what I will do is stand up for the truth and for my reputation [against] false attacks, anonymous attacks, repeated ad nauseam, printed ad nauseam.”

Hegseth listed his three top missions as head of the Department of Defense:

• “Restore the warrior ethos to the Pentagon and throughout our fighting force; in doing so, we will reestablish trust in our military — and address the recruiting, retention and readiness crisis in our ranks. The strength of our military is our unity — our shared purpose — not our differences.”

• “Rebuild our military, always matching threats to capabilities; this includes reviving our defense industrial base, reforming the acquisition process (no more ‘Valley of Death’ for new defense companies), modernizing our nuclear triad … and rapidly fielding emerging technologies.”

• “Reestablish deterrence. First and foremost, we will defend our homeland … Second, we will work with our partners and allies to deter aggression in the Indo-Pacific from the communist Chinese. Finally, we will responsibly end wars to ensure we can prioritize our resources — and reorient to larger threats. We can no longer count on ‘reputational deterrence’ — we need real deterrence.”

Hegseth said the Defense Department under Trump “will achieve peace through strength” and “will remain patriotically apolitical and stridently constitutional. Unlike the current administration. Leaders — at all levels — will be held accountable. And warfighting and lethality — and the readiness of the troops and their families — will be our only focus. That has been my focus ever since I first put on the uniform as a young Army ROTC cadet at Princeton University in 2001,” Hegseth adds. “I served with incredible Americans in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Afghanistan and in the streets of Washington, D.C. This includes enlisted soldiers I helped become American citizens, and Muslim allies I helped immigrate from Iraq and Afghanistan. And when I took off the uniform, my mission never stopped.”

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