“This savage terrorist deserves the harshest lawful punishment for his 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood. The victims and survivors deserve justice without delays,” Hegseth added in his statement to the DCNF.
Pete Hegseth
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U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration; Army National Guard veteran and former Fox News host.
“I am 100 percent committed to ensuring the death penalty is carried out for Nidal Hasan,” Hegseth told the DCNF in September 2025.
“He’s gonna get a firing squad of soldiers,” Hegseth said during a Thursday interview with conservative commentator Jack Posobiec aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. “As it should be. We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it’s…
When you greet your families tomorrow, just pass my gratitude from the president and myself
What makes the US military and the US Navy and all these sailors different is that you adapt and that you’re resilient and you overcome — you finish the mission nonetheless.
God is good. Evil is not. And America’s military must understand the difference.
The media calls that a purge,” he said. “I call it accountability and long overdue. The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in.