Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested military service members shouldn’t follow “unlawful orders” in a recently unearthed 2016 speech that closely mirrors the recent remarks by a group of Democratic lawmakers he has criticized as treasonous.

President Trump’s Pentagon chief was captured on tape telling a conservative policy forum that the American military was better than others because service members are trained not to follow orders that violate the rules of war from the commander in chief or anyone else, a video published by CNN revealed.

“If you’re doing something that is just completely unlawful and ruthless, then there is a consequence for that,” Hegseth said in the video. “That’s why the military said it won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief.”

“There

See Full Page