Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused Democratic lawmakers of betraying their country for cautioning troops against obeying Donald Trump’s “unlawful orders,” but it turns out he was actually many steps ahead of them.

In 2016, as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed that US troops would carry out even his most extreme battlefield orders as commander in chief — some of which former military leaders said would be illegal — Pete Hegseth warned that service members had a duty to refuse unlawful orders from a potential President Trump.

President Trump didn't do much to help out his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth during 'SNL' — but he did dream about Zohran Mamdani.

New legislation would compel Secretary Hegseth to provide lawmakers the unedited video of the Sept. 2 military boat strike that killed two survivors in the Caribbean.

Attorney General Pam Bondi also argued that service members must disobey unlawful orders before joining Trump’s DOJ

But many also sounded exasperated that once again they were dealing with controversy sparked by Bradley’s boss, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. And after 10 months of turbulence under Hegseth’s leadership,

According to images and screenshots shared of the meeting, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's title was misspelled on his placard, reading "Ssecretary of War." Snopes readers shared an image of Hegseth seated behind the apparently misspelt placard and asked us to ascertain whether the error was real.

Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth once warned that troops must refuse unlawful military orders from Trump. Now he condemns lawmakers for the exact same warning.