CNN —Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has repeatedly criticized policies allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military, calling them part of a “Marxist” agenda to prioritize social justice over combat readiness.
“But because I naïvely believed that’s what ending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was all about.
“It started with Clinton under ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’” he said.
“So it started, you know, we saw it under Clinton with the tinkering of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ and the reasons for those changes,” Hegseth said on a podcast promoting his book.
“It was stuff like, ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ which was their immediate target, right?
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