What Donald Trump's defense secretary Pete Hegseth said about Russia, China

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : During his time with Fox News, he has developed a friendship with Trump who has made regular appearances on the show, the Associated Press reported.
51% : "Mark Shanahan, a U.S. political expert and associate professor at the University of Surrey, England, told Newsweek that Trump will value Hegseth's television appeal.
41% : However, Hegseth has suggested that Trump was playing with the media when the Republican praised Putin, telling Jesse Watters Primetime in 2022 that the Russian president "lives rent-free in the minds of our media.""No organism, no entity has done more to spread Russian propaganda and to prop up the strongman that is Vladimir Putin than our very own media," Hegseth said, adding that Trump "was happy to troll them on it as he continues to do to this moment because they can't resist it.
38% : Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the AP that Trump was "tired of fighting" with his secretaries of defense and so chose someone "loyal to him."
37% : As Trump builds his national security team, Newsweek looks at what Hegseth has said about the countries that will present Washington's key foreign policy challenges.

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