Pete Hegseth

He's like, no, no, no.

He couldn't tell me.

And then, of course, when I was writing the book, I reached out to somebody in the unit who could confirm with 99.9% certainty because he was in the meetings and on the emails.

Nope, someone inside the D.C.

Guard trolled your social media, found a tattoo, used it as an excuse to call you a white nationalist, an extremist, and you were specifically by name orders revoked to guard the inauguration because you were considered a potential threat.

How is that?

It's a cross.

It's a Christian symbol.

That's all it is.

There's a lot of guys with, I got a Christian symbol here.

I got, you know, no, because it wasn't about that.

It was about, I don't know, was it I'm too conservative?

Is it because I'm a Trump supporter?

Is it because I was a reporter on January 6th?

Maybe I worked at Fox.

Maybe that's what it was.

They had decided Pete Hegseth is not qualified to guard the inauguration of a Democrat president.

which is ridiculous because I volunteered to go to Afghanistan under Barack Obama.

I'm no Democrat, but I believed, I was hopeful the surge in Afghanistan might work, and I volunteered to go in 2011, 2012.

So it's never been about, for guys like you and me, it's never been about Republicans and Democrats.