What kind of round is used for an M9? What caliber of ammo do they use for an M4? How many pushups can you do?

Navy SEAL veteran and now US Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) had a great back and forth with fellow veteran Pete Hegseth that kind of went viral. Hegseth is President Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Defense.

Does Sen. Sheehy actually care how many pushups Hegseth can do? Probably not. Heck, any soldier- any warfighter- should  be able to easily answer the questions above. How many of those politicans could have answered those questions? (Hegseth did 5 rounds of 47 pushups that same morning in case anyone is wondering)

Sen. Sheehy told Sean Hannity on Fox News Tuesday night why those questions mattered. He started by telling Hannity about the absurdity of the smear campaign that has been directed at Hegseth:

Sen. Sheehy: "We all knew it was coming Sean. This is what they did to Clarence Thomas, what they did to Brett Kavanaugh. They did it to me during my election. When they can't argue on policy or substance, when they know that they are wrong with what the American people want- this is what the Democrats do. They resort to smear, anonymous allegations, character assassination- because they know they can't talk about the disgrace of the Afghan withdrawal. They can't talk about the disgraceful state of our military recruitment. We can't build enough ships. Can't build enough planes. We haven't won a war in a long time, and our military spending three times more on DEI initiatives now than we were four years ago. So they know that on policy, the US Department of Defense is in tatters right now, and therefore they couldn't spend two seconds talking about policy, and they decided to smear this young man who's going to do a great job. We support him. And that's why my questions were directed the way they were. I wanted to remind people what this job was really about, and it's supporting the war fighter and protecting America."


 

 

This tweet alone has nearly 7 million views as of Wednesday afternoon:    

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