Trump stabs war veterans in the back, will appoint Pete Hegseth who demanded vets have private healthcare, vets say it's war

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“I’ve been told President Trump wants Pete Hegseth to replace [David] Shulkin at the VA after he is fired,” Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich said in a tweet.

“President Donald Trump is expected to fire VA Secretary David Shulkin and is strongly considering replacing him with US Army Veteran Pete Hegseth,” Pavlich wrote on TownHall, citing sources.



Hegseth’s name was floated as a possible VA secretary after Trump was elected, but veterans’ groups — including the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vietnam Veterans of America and Amvets — opposed his nomination.

Hegseth for years worked for Koch brothers- and Republican-funded activist groups and think tanks that wanted all veterans to have the option of having private health care.


“If Trump picks Hegseth, it’s going to be war,” Paul Rieckhoff, the executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, told The New York Times in December 2016.