'Clearly a Sycophant!' House Democrat Blasts Trump's Pick of 'Pawn' Fox News Host for Defense Secretary

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Trump announced Tuesday evening his plans to make the Fox & Friends Weekend co-host a member of his Cabinet and sixth in the presidential line of succession, complimenting Hegseth's eight years on Fox News, New York Times bestselling book, and military service.
58% : Burnett joked that "ten minutes have passed, so the world has changed," and played a video of "long-time staunch Trump defender" Hegseth effusively praising Trump as "a president who has said I wanna make America great again, and he's up against the forces of the left who believe America was never great."
31% : "Goldman replied that he believed Hegseth "is clearly going to do whatever Donald Trump wants him to do," and what Trump wanted was "to politicize the entire executive branch, the entire federal government."
20% : Burnett played a clip of Hegseth in 2019 talking about how "God has used imperfect people" like Trump, but "what [Trump] had withstood is unlike what any other mortal could.
5% : He added that he still needed to look into the draft executive order "a little more," but he was concerned this would result in Trump and Hegseth acting to "target" the generals who have criticized Trump like John Kelly and Mark Milley.

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