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\nIssues with drinking? Those are anonymous smears.<\/p>\n
No women in combat? That\u2019s not what I said.<\/p>\n
Pete Hegseth used a pattern of denials, memory holes and attacking the \u201cleft-wing\u201d media at his Tuesday confirmation hearing for Pentagon chief as he sought to counter controversial issues in his past. And that strategy may work for him \u2014 along with Donald Trump\u2019s other troubled nominees.”<\/p>\n
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