Even before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had declared Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist, Pete Hegseth was online trashing his home state. Hegseth, who grew up north of Minneapolis, took to social media in the hours after masked immigration agents shot the ICU nurse with a stark calculation: 'ICE > MN.' 'We have your back 100%. You are SAVING the country,' the Pentagon chief told immigration agents in an X post. 'Shame on the leadership of Minnesota'and the lunatics in the street.' Hegseth didn't define the we. He and fellow Cabinet members' The 1.3 million service members he commands' The troops he put on standby for potential deployment to Minneapolis' He hasn't said. But if there was any doubt about how Hegseth would wield military might if troops were sent to check unrest or dissent in U.S. cities, there's your answer. Hegseth, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a National Guardsman before becoming a Fox News weekend host, has repeatedly blamed 'woke' and 'weak'...
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