From The Midwesterner:
Michigan’s two U.S. senators attempted to grill President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense on Tuesday, and now they’re getting grilled online. […]
“I don’t know of any corporate board of directors that would hire a CEO for a major company if they came and said, you know, I supervised 100 people before,” Peters said. “We need innovation. Can you give me an experience or your actual experience of driving innovation in an organization? Give me an example of where you have done that.”
Hegseth’s response forced Peters to cut off the nominee and move on to other gotcha questions.
“Oh, absolutely,” Hegseth said. “At Concerned Veterans for America, we created the Fixing Veterans’ Task Force, a bipartisan task force that had never been done before, to create policy, drive policy change on Capitol Hill that organizations fought ferociously against. We got the VA Accountability Act passed, and the Mission Act passed in a way that a nonprofit of our size, a veterans organization, has never done.”
“Ok, great, thank you,” Peters interrupted. “We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Ok.”
The article goes on to note Elissa Slotkin badgering Hegseth by repeatedly asking the moronic question of whether Hegseth would refuse an illegal order — an identical question to those asked by Democrats at other confirmation hearings, as if any nominee might say yes.
She continued by asking: “If Donald Trump asked you to use the 82nd Airborne in law enforcement roles in Washington, D.C., would you also convince him otherwise?”
To which Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Charlie Duff mocked on X:
“Would somebody inform newby Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin that troops from the 82nd and 101st Airborne were deployed to Detroit in 1967 to quell civil unrest? That 6,000 federal troops were deployed to Detroit in 1943 to quell civil unrest? Helps to know the place you represent.”
