No tarkoitin sitä että sillä on pitkä ura armeijassa, palvellut monessa eri maassa ja roolissa. Armeijan jälkeen se on johtanut myös paria veteraanijärjestöä ja tosiaan on myös ihan kohtuu kelpo koulutus.
Ja sitten nostat vain sen nykyisen ammatin poliittisena kommentaattorina ja juontajana tikunnokkaan.
Aika näyttää onko tuo pätevä puolustusministerin roolissa, mutta ei tuo silti minusta "klovnilta" kuulosta.
Mun korvaani kuulostaa ihan pelkältä klovnilta. Täysin seonneelta kaverilta. Mutta just sellaselta mitä kunnon Elonit ja muut MAGA-klovnit on:
Fox News
Hegseth joined Fox News as a contributor in 2014.
[17] In December 2018, Hegseth co-hosted Fox News Channel's
All-American New Year with
Fox Business Network's
Kennedy, during which a pre-recorded telephone interview between him and President Trump was broadcast.
[25][26] He has been a regular guest on
Unfiltered with Dan Bongino since 2021.
[27][28]
On June 14, 2015, Hegseth accidentally hit a
West Point drummer with an axe while filming a live TV segment in honor of
Flag Day.
[29] The drummer said that he sustained "only minor injuries." The
New York Daily News reported that in a later segment, the drummer was "seen cheerfully speaking on camera as if the accident never took place."
[29]
Controversies
In May 2018, Hegseth mocked
The New York Times for ostensibly not covering a story about the capture of five
ISIS leaders, referring to the paper as the "failing
New York Times" even though the paper had already filed a report on the story.
[30]
In May 2019, it was reported that Trump was considering pardoning several US military service members who had been charged with
war crimes, including a veteran set to stand trial for shooting indiscriminately at civilians, hitting a girl and an elderly man,
[31] as well as fatally stabbing a captured teenage Islamic State (ISIS) member while he was receiving medical treatment.
The Daily Beast and
CNN later reported that Hegseth had for months sought to convince Trump to pardon these individuals. At the same time, Hegseth was discussing these cases on Fox News without disclosing that he had advised Trump to pardon them.
[32][33] In November 2019, Trump pardoned three service members accused or convicted of war crimes. Shortly before Trump announced his decision, Hegseth suggested that Trump was about to take "imminent action" in the cases.
[34][35]
In July 2019, Hegseth said that one of the Muslim members of Congress,
Rashida Tlaib, had a "
Hamas agenda".
[36]
In August 2019, he lamented that "young kids voting" are worried about the adverse
effects of climate change. Hegseth also criticized universities for teaching students about "environmentalism and radical environmentalism" rather than a "real threat" such as
Islamic extremism.
[37]
In January 2020, Hegseth expressed strong support for President Trump's decision to
kill Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
[38] He also called on Trump to bomb the Iranian homeland,
including cultural sites if they were storing weapons.
[39]
In February 2020, amid the spread of the
COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Hegseth said that Democrats were "rooting for coronavirus to spread. They're rooting for it to grow. They're rooting for the problem to get worse." Hegseth suggested the
Omicron variant of
COVID-19 was made up by Democrats to help them in the
2022 midterm elections, saying "Count on a variant about every October, every two years."
[40]
In June 2022, on a
Fox & Friends Weekend segment, Hegseth crossed out Harvard on his diploma, writing in "Critical Theory" and then marking "RETURN TO SENDER" across the central body as a protest of Harvard and other such universities. "People will say 'this is just a stunt, you still have a degree' and that's fine. I went, I got the degree, I walked to the classes and all that, but I hope this is a statement that as conservatives and patriots, if we love this country, we can't keep sending our kids and elevating them to universities that are poisoning their mind. I may have survived it, but a lot of kids go there and buy into 'critical theory university,' and that's how we get future leaders, Supreme Court Justices, Senators, others, who see America as an evil place. And Harvard is a factory for that kind of thinking" he said. Hegseth then declared his intention to return the diploma to Harvard.
[41]
.. Mutta mitäpä mää Jenkkien armeijoista tiedän tai vaadituista ministerispekseistä.
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