
Sen. Slotkin on Capitol Hill
Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Wednesday ripped into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill. The senator addressed the issue of military deployment in the streets of America.
“Have you given the order to be able to shoot at unarmed protesters in any way?” the freshman senator asked Hegseth. “I'm just asking the question—don’t laugh.”
Hegseth responded by asking what the question was based on, to which she replied:
“It's based on Donald Trump giving that order to your predecessor—to a Republican Secretary of Defense (Mark Esper)—who we give a lot of credit to because he didn’t accept the order. He had more guts and balls than you, because he said, ‘I’m not gonna send in the uniformed military to do something that I know in my gut isn’t right.’
“He was asked to shoot at their legs—he wrote that in his book. That’s not hearsay. So your poo-pooing of this, it just shows you don’t understand who we are as a country. And all of my colleagues across the aisle—especially the ones that served—should want an apolitical military and not want citizens to be scared of their own military.”