Senator Mark Kelley, on Hegseth's retaliatory demotion of him:
“My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife,” former Representative Gabby Giffords, “recovered from a gunshot wound to the head—all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder,” he said in a statement on X. “If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it.”
Absolutely despicable.
Hegseth’s Appalling Vengeance Campaign
The defense secretary’s attempts to demote Senator Mark Kelly are a pernicious form of political bullying.