Pete Hegseth
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Appearances Over Time
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I mean, if you look at the back cover of the book, it says, I joined the army to fight extremists in 2001.
20 years later, that same army labeled me one.
Yeah.
So I got out because, and I can tell the story or not, but I was deemed an extremist because of a tattoo by my National Guard unit in Washington, D.C.
And my orders were revoked.
to guard the Biden inauguration.
But all of this, so you have what happened with George Floyd.
What a punishment.
I know.
It's actually, you put it that way, you're exactly right.
You put it, you're exactly right.
You know, but you had the George Floyd riots.
And then you had, I was also in the DC Guard during the, what happened in front of the White House.
You remember the insurrection that no one calls an insurrection outside the White House when they, you know, burned the church down and got to the gates of the White House.
I was there the second night through the fifth night of all of that.
I was a 04 major holding a riot shield because they didn't have enough guys.
So we were just out there doing our thing and explain a little bit about that.
That happens, then January 6th happens.
And both of those moments become pretenses for the DoD
with political appointees who've long since been burrowed in and generals who are all in for the politically correct agenda.