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Pete Hegseth, Trump’s defense secretary nominee, has multiple Christian and Crusades-inspired tattoos

JL;DR SUMMARY Pete Hegseth, a Fox News personality and Trump’s nominee for U.S. Secretary of Defense, has drawn attention for his body tattoos reflecting Christian and Crusader imagery. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Trump AdministrationChristian NationalismTwo State SolutionFar RightMiddle East PoliticsPete HegsethJerusalem CrossDeus VultCrusader SymbolismReformed Reconstructionism

Places mentioned

New York City, New York, United States
"celebrates Independence Day on Fox & Friends Weekend, July 4, 2021, in New York City."
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
"a crusader symbol also appeared at the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in the U.S. Capitol as well as at the 2017 far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia."
Washington DC, United States
"members of my unit in leadership deemed that I was an extremist or a white nationalist because of a tattoo I have, which is a religious tattoo. Its a Jerusalem cross."
Texas, United States
"The perpetrator of the 2023 Allen, Texas, mall shooting had it tattooed alongside neo-Nazi tattoos,"
Bethlehem, Palestinian Territories
"He told Media Ink that he got the tattoo while in Bethlehem, Jesus birthplace, which is located in the present-day West Bank, where he was reporting for Fox Nation."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Hegseth expressed these views in a 2018 speech delivered in Jerusalem at a conference organized by the right-wing Israel National News, also known as Arutz Sheva."

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