Charlie Kirk: “If you are going to oppose Pete Hegseth, then we wanna know your names and your states because we'll be visiting a neighborhood near you”
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From the December 4, 2024, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): We are still here live in sunny Palm Beach, the center of the political universe. A lot is happening right now. I can tell you the transition team is working very, very hard to put together an all-star team, to put together a team of change makers and people that are going to fulfill the mandate. I wanna begin today talking — we're gonna go through a lot of topics here, Pete Hegseth.
Pete Hegseth is a great man. Pete Hegseth has honorably served his country. And Pete Hegseth right now is victim to a media smear job to try to destroy his character and try to remove him from the nomination for secretary of defense. Now some people say, but Charlie, he doesn't have the experience, you know, running a big organization. Hold on a second. He's actually served in the front lines of the department that he is going to have to run.
You see, we used to have a tradition in this country where the people who were in charge of our military were also involved in the front lines of combat. George Washington famously would march to the front lines against the British and would be shot at, would not be moved. Our leaders used to be hardened by actual conflict. Pete Hegseth has served his country with incredible bravery and courage. This is nothing compared to what he had to fight face on the front lines fighting for America. However, the media is doing their best to try and be the fourth estate, to try to remove him as Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense. So let's begin here. Let's first talk about the positive. This is coach Tuberville praising Pete Hegseth, and we've talked about this quite some time on this program.
These Republican senators need to stand up and be counted. And if you are going to oppose Pete Hegseth, then we wanna know your names and your states because we'll be visiting a neighborhood near you. If you're from Arkansas, if you're from Kansas, if you're from South Dakota, if you're from Idaho and you're against Pete Hegseth, you're gonna have to defend that to your voters. You see, the American people did not vote for old bull Senate Republicans to get in the way of President Trump's mandate.