Tammy Duckworth Torches Pete Hegseth For Flip-Flopping On Russia And Brings Receipts
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The Illinois Democrat countered Hegseth's curious refusal to name Russia as the aggressor in the Ukraine war with his own work as a former Fox News host.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) is calling out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who recently refused on national television to acknowledge Russia as the aggressor in the Ukraine war — but openly did just that during his former tenure as a Fox News host.
“I don’t need to get into the characterization of we know who invaded who,” Hegseth said Sunday during an appearance on Fox News. “We understand the stakes of this game … Does all the finger-pointing and pearl-clutching make peace more likely?”
Duckworth, who held Hegseth’s feet to the fire during his confirmation hearing last month, took to X on Wednesday with images of him hosting a Fox News segment in March 2022 — under the clear-cut chyron “Tracking Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.”
“Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine,” she wrote. “This you?”
The defense secretary’s blatant about-face has certainly raised eyebrows on social media, as Hegseth seems to be taking his lead from President Donald Trump, who said last week that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “should have never started” the war.
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