Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a self-declared “crusader” who believes the USA is in a “holy war” against China, the left, and Islam. “Communist China will fall”, he vowed in his 2020 book “American Crusade”, promising, “Israel and America will form an even tighter bond, fighting the scourge of Islamism and international leftism that will never fully abate”. Ben Norton reports on his extremist record.

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0:00 Trump's cabinet of hawks

0:42 Pete Hegseth's "American Crusade"

2:02 Hegseth: "Communist China will fall"

3:26 Make the Crusades Great Again

4:38 Fox News

6:10 (CLIP) US "prepared" for war with China

7:02 Fearmongering about China

7:29 (CLIP) Trump on China "threat"

7:37 Fearmongering about China

8:42 (CLIP) CIA lies, cheats, & steals

8:58 Fearmongering about China

11:31 US military is "most lethal"

12:04 (CLIP) Hegseth: "most lethal" military

12:10 Culture war

13:23 (CLIP) Hegseth on "lethality"

13:28 Conservative identity politics

13:45 (CLIP) Hegseth's "warfighters"

13:59 Media pundit criticizes media

14:20 (CLIP) Hegseth on the media

14:36 (CLIP) Hegseth on Fox News

15:14 Israel

18:17 Hegseth wants war on Iran

18:44 (CLIP) Hegseth calls to bomb Iran

19:55 War with Iran?

20:39 (CLIP) Trump: US will "own" Gaza

20:46 War with Iran?

21:03 Pete Hegseth's elite background

21:41 (CLIP) Hegseth Harvard diploma stunt

22:30 Wall Street

22:55 Neocon

23:35 Guantanamo Bay

24:43 Book "American Crusade"

25:45 Hegseth declares "holy war"

26:33 US Civil War II?

31:05 War on secularism

33:18 (CLIP) Trump on the Bible

33:53 War on secularism

34:16 Hegseth's war on Islam

37:44 Extremist loses friends

38:52 Outro