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Pete Hegseth to Defense Forum: ‘I fully support that strike, I would have made the same call myself’

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During a talk at the Reagan National Defense Forum Secretary of War Pete Hegseth defended the September 2 strike on a Venezuelan boat, saying “I fully support that strike, I would have made the same call myself.”

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