Republicans panicking Pete Hegseth nomination will 'backfire' on Trump: former GOP adviser
Appearing on MSNBC with host Ana Cabrera on Friday morning a former senior GOP congressional adviser stated the Senate Republicans are expressing dismay that the hearing on secretary defense nominee Pete Hegseth is being rushed and it could lead to a disaster.
Speaking with the host hours before the whole Senate will vote on the embattled former Fox News personality's future in Donald Trump's Cabinet will be decided, Rina Shah explained that there is a feeling that the proceedings should be slowed down.
"I'm hearing right now from Republicans who feel sort of like this is not the pace at which they feel comfortable with from the Senate side," she explained. "You do see people who want to exhibit that caution, that restraint when going for some nominee that has a complex background like Hegseth."
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"You know, complex is putting it as an understatement here," she elaborated. "It seems like there's been a steady drip-drop of information. And of course, his attorneys will say, and anyone defending him will say, people in his past have an axe to grind but I think it's more problematic than that when we're asking this man to come from the private life to a public life and lead the greatest military in the world."
"We've got to make sure he's a man of great character and integrity, but also doesn't have these kind of modern day issues that could seep into leadership and change military culture," she continued. "So that is, again, what's being whispered about right now."
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