An embattled Hegseth said Wednesday that, if confirmed, he would be willing to give up alcohol.
“I’m not going to have a drink at all. It’s not hard for me, because it’s not a problem for me,” he said on “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
“I need to make sure that the senators, and the troops, and President Trump and everybody else knows, when you call me 24/7, you’re getting fully dialed-in Pete, just like you always did in Iraq and Afghanistan,” he continued, adding: “This is the biggest deployment of my life, and there won’t be a drop of alcohol on my lips while I’m doing it.”
Hegseth has been advertising that promise to some of the senators who will decide whether he is qualified to be the secretary of defense.
