Things got heated on Wednesday during a committee hearing.
And as the temperature turned up, a searing hot spotlight was cast on both Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and progressive Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Wednesday’s contentious hearing covered a variety of topics, but one moment in particular has begun to go viral.
“I’m also concerned about recent reporting on your own financial dealings with regard to profiting from the war in Iran,” Warren said. “The Financial Times reported that your broker tried to buy hundreds of shares in a BlackRock fund invested in defense companies just before the war began.”
“The law clearly prohibits the secretary–.”
Hegseth immediately fired back: “That entire story is false, has been from the beginning, and was made up out of whole cloth.”
“And anybody that looks at it sees how it was worded from the beginning to make it look like I was
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