WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Sen. Elissa Slotkin issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) released the following video compiling Pete Hegseth's own words regarding illegal orders. These new videos build on CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/us/hegseth-illegal-orders-video-democrats-kfile-invs) reporting from earlier this week about Hegseth's position in 2016 that the U.S. military should only follow lawful orders.
WATCH HERE (https://x.com/SenatorSlotkin/status/1996774994261487836?s=20)
In further video evidence from 2016, then-Major Pete Hegseth criticizes President Trump as "an armchair tough guy" and repeats similar language that Slotkin and others said in their video (https://x.com/SenatorSlotkin/status...