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Pete Hegseth: “Never should have been taken down by woke lemmings. Unlike the Left, we don’t believe in erasing American history - we…”

On the recordAugust 15, 2025
Never should have been taken down by woke lemmings. Unlike the Left, we don’t believe in erasing American history - we honor it.
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Pete Hegseth
Source
msnbc.com
Aug 15, 2025

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Hegseth discusses the return of a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery.

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