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  • Andrew Kaczynski @ CNN: In 2016 video, Hegseth says US troops ‘won’t follow unlawful orders’ from the president

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told an audience in a previously unreported 2016 video that the US military “won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief,” and described the refusal of illegal commands as a part of the military’s ethos and standards — a message he now condemns Democrats for spreading.

Speaking with Mother Jones's "More to the Story" podcast on Wednesday, however, Lorenzo Sewell, a Republican pastor with close ties to Trump, tried to argue that the president was in fact "anti-racist."

The Right seems to have decided that if they can't stop him, they'll have to normalize him.

The former president of Honduras was convicted of trafficking cocaine. Why did Trump pardon him?

The New York Young Republican Club will host Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD deputy chair, at its annual gala after calling for a ‘new civic order’ in Germany.

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Lorenzo Sewell
Nick Fuentes with bullhorn at a Stop The Steal rally

Nick Fuentes

Dropping out of college after one year following his participation in the deadly white nationalist “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA, in 2017, Fuentes launched a career as a racist, antisemitic, misogynistic far-right activist and livestreamer.
Pete Hegseth

Pete Hegseth

Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Defense, Hegseth left the military after colleagues raised concerns about his tattoos associated with the Crusades and embraced by white nationalists. As the head of a veterans' nonprofit, he reportedly led a bar crowd in chants of "Kill All Muslims." In his book "American Crusade," he wrote, “Our American Crusade is not about literal swords, and our fight is not with guns. Yet.” Hegseth attends a church associated with Doug Wilson, a Christian nationalist who wants the Apostles Creed to be incorporated into the U.S. Constitution.