Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused Democratic lawmakers of betraying their country for cautioning troops against obeying Donald Trump’s “unlawful orders,” but it turns out he was actually many steps ahead of them.
Hegseth, 45, predicted back in 2016 that Trump would run into trouble if he tried to get members of the military to follow “illegal orders,” according to footage dug up by CNN’s KFile. Trump, then a presidential candidate, had argued that the military should disregard the rules of law in order to win.
Hegseth had offered a prescient response to Trump’s claims at the time while working as a Fox News contributor, saying: “What happens when people follow those orders, or don’t follow them? It’s not clear that Donald Trump will have their back… Donald Trump is often times about Donald Trump."
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