presidential election donald trump Fox News host Pete Hegseth has been selected as secretary of defense, the former president announced Tuesday night.
Hegseth, 44, is an Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has an undergraduate degree from Princeton and a graduate degree from Harvard.
“I am honored to announce that I have nominated Pete Hegseth to serve in my Cabinet as Secretary of Defense,” Trump said in a statement Tuesday night. “Pete has spent his entire life as a warrior for the soldiers and his country. Pete is tough, smart, and a man who truly believes in America First. Under Pete's leadership, America's enemies are on alert – making our military great again It will happen, and America will never back down.”
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Hegseth is co-anchor of “Fox & Friends Weekends” and author of the book “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.”
This is a developing story and will be updated.