Sam Stein: Trump Was Looking for the ‘Biggest Sycophant that He Can Find’ and He Picked Pete Hegseth Just Because He’s on ‘Fox and Friends’

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STEIN: “I think with the Hegseth thing, and sorry to keep going back here, but I just think it's the most controversial one, is that he's -- they -- they've been pretty much clear about their desire to use the military domestically, right? I mean, this was an issue in the first term, where they want to put down some of the protests happening in Lafayette Square, they used the military, it was a problem for the military leaders at the time, they didn't realize they were being co-opted in that way. Obviously, military officials spoke out against Trump after the fact. I think he looks at this and says, 'You know what? I don't want to deal with that again.' And so find the most -- you know, the -- the biggest sycophant that he can find to serve as Defense secretary and see if he can jam it through the Senate, and that seems to be what's happening here.”