Corey Lewandowski, a senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, said Monday that former Fox News host Pete Hegseth is exceptionally qualified to serve in Trump’s Cabinet as defense secretary, telling Newsmax the president-elect’s team has “no concerns at all” about his nomination.
“Pete is eminently qualified to be the secretary of Defense,” Lewandowski said during an appearance on “National Report.” “The issue is he’s outside-of-the-box thinking. He’s not the traditional military-industrial complex choice, someone who has been through the ranks. Pete has served with distinction in his capacity in the military. He is a Princeton graduate, he is a Harvard graduate, he has front-line duties.
“The fact that Donald Trump is picking somebody to go and fundamentally reform the Pentagon should be of no surprise as we have seen a military-industrial complex that has made billions, if not trillions, of dollars over the course of the last multiple decades engaging in multiple wars around this world,” he said. “It’s time to bring our troops home and Pete will make sure that that’s exactly what we do.”
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