By The American Tribune | Created at 2026-06-03 10:36:51 | Updated at 2026-06-07 14:21:05
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Things went absolutely less than well for Senator Elisa Slotkin (D-MI) when she tried harassing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and ended up getting absolutely obliterated by him in front of the nation, with the Secretary of War exposing what was really going on with the armed forces that he is trying to fix.
Beginning with a bizarre attempt to make Hegseth comment on her fever dreams of a scary future, Sen. Slotkin said, “The question I have for you, though, is future looking, and it’s our 2026 elections. The President has been very clear. He said in the State of the Union that essentially, if his side doesn’t win, then the election was rigged. He said that before the 2020 election. He’s asked for voter rolls for 29 different states.”
Continuing, she insisted, similarly bizarrely, “He just asked for Detroit’s votes or ballots, and we know that in 2020 he wrote an executive order that he didn’t sign that said to the US military, to the Secretary of Defense, you should go and seize ballots and voting machines. A few months ago, he said that he regretted that he ever, that he didn’t sign that executive order. So the US military has never been deployed.”
She then finally asked a question, working her way up to it from the bizarre story she was making up and saying, “You miscorrectly, incorrectly said yesterday that they were deployed during different elections. Governors deployed them under their authorities, but the federal government has never put the uniformed military at our polls during World War Two, right after 911 We’ve never had to do that. So, Secretary Hegseth, if the president, who regrets not signing that executive order to the then sec def in 2020, asks you to seize ballots or voting machines in states during the 2026 election, will you stand up for the Constitution and say no, or will you salute and do his bidding?”
Responding, Hegseth first noted that she hadn’t let him answer an earlier question, saying, “Senator, I didn’t get a chance to answer the front part of your question, which you know there was a lot of deferred maintenance under the administration that needed to be addressed because the world was in chaos.” She then started berating him and demanding he answer her question about her made up story, and Hegseth responded by saying, “It’s yet another gotcha hypothetical, which is your special.”
After more bickering, she then demanded the same question of him, asking a hypothetical while insisting that it’s not a hypothetical and saying, “In 2020, he’s the president, your boss, the guy you’re performing for right now, told the journalists this year that he wished he signed that executive order to your predecessor, and your predecessor said publicly, ‘Thank God we didn’t actually go forward with it.’ What are you going to do? You’re the guy here in the seat, it’s not hypothetical. Tell the American people, will you deploy the uniform military to our polls to collect voter rolls or machines?”
Hegseth, calling out her antics, snapped, “Are you accusing me of performing? Because you’re performing for cable news right now?” Then, after they argued yet more, he snapped, “I’ve never been ordered to do anything illegal, and I won’t. That goes without saying.:
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