Tammy Duckworth Has 1 Blunt Question For Trump's 'Dangerous' Defense Secretary Pick
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The senator and Iraq War veteran hit back at Pete Hegseth's comments that women shouldn't serve in combat roles.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), an Army National Guard veteran, shut down Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth on Wednesday over his remarks that women shouldn’t serve in military combat roles.
“I would ask him, you know, ’Where do you think I lost my legs? In a bar fight?′ I’m pretty sure I was in combat when that happened,” said Duckworth in an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
Duckworth — who lost both her legs when her Black Hawk helicopter was attacked during the Iraq War in 2004 — has referred to Trump’s pick, a Fox News anchor who has also served in the Army National Guard, as “dangerous” and a “wholly unqualified” in a statement earlier in the day.
Hegseth, just days before the president-elect announced he was up for the defense secretary position, told the “Shawn Ryan Show” that women in combat roles “hasn’t made us more effective” and has “made fighting more complicated.”
He then noted that his comments were tied to women in “physical, labor-intense” military roles.
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