Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick for Defense secretary, said Wednesday that he won’t back down amid growing scrutiny over his nomination.

Hegseth posted a photograph of himself in the military on social platform X with a message suggesting that he is subject to a smear campaign from Democrats.

“I’m doing this for the warfighters, not the warmongers. The Left is afraid of disrupters and change agents. They are afraid of @realDonaldTrump—and me," he wrote.

"So they smear w/ fake, anonymous sources........

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