House and Senate Republicans will select their leadership for the new Congress today after a midterm drubbing.
\n\nHegseth compared impeachment efforts against him to Trump being impeached twice, though he was never convicted.
\n\n"Now they’re trying a third time, this time against a member of his cabinet," Hegseth said. "They will fail again, and if standing with President Trump puts me in that company, I’ll take that company every day of the week."
\n\nHegseth also made the case that the impeachment efforts against him was effectively an effort to target service members. The impeachment resolutions tell service members "that their service was a crime," Hegseth said.
\n\n"This is not about me," Hegseth said. "Politicians in Washington have accused the sailors and the pilots who struck narco terrorist boats of war crimes for doing their job."
\n\nHe continued, arguing that the impeachment resolution of him was the next step toward targeting the military.
\n\n"This resolution is the next step," he said. "Put the secretary on trial today, and the men and women who carried out those orders tomorrow. If they want to come for the warriors, they’re going to have to come through me."
\n\nThe impeachment articles only target Hegseth, not…
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