‘She thinks highly of me’: Hegseth fires back at protester after she yells ‘you’re a war criminal’

‘YOU’RE A F**KING WAR CRIMINAL’: Anti-war protesters repeatedly heckle US War Secretary Pete Hegseth during the US Army’s annual AUSA conference in Washington, DC, over the Iran war and Gaza. Hegseth fires back with a sarcastic ‘She thinks highly of me’ after a woman calls him a war criminal, drawing cheers from the audience as security removes protesters interrupting the Pentagon event. Watch the viral Pete Hegseth protest video as demonstrators call him a ‘coward’ and a ‘Nazi,’ accuse the Trump administration of killing children and disrupt a military discussion on autonomous warfare and…
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