In 2016, Pete Hegseth had a message for American troops: don't follow unlawful orders from Donald Trump.

CNN's KFile unearthed multiple appearances where the then-Fox News contributor warned that service members had a duty to refuse illegal commands. "The military's not gonna follow illegal orders," Hegseth said on Fox Business. "You're not just gonna follow that order if it's unlawful," he said on Fox & Friends.

At the time, candidate Trump was drawing criticism for proposals military lawyers said would violate the laws of war — killing terrorists' families, reviving torture beyond waterboarding. "Here's the problem with Trump," Hegseth told Megyn Kelly. "He says, 'Go ahead and kill the family. Go ahead and torture.' What happens when people follow those orders, or don't follow them? It

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