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Pete Hegseth branded ‘deeply unwell’ as GOP and Dem critics pile on over livestream execution: ‘Obscene medieval spectacle’

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Pete Hegseth announced that the Fort Hood shooter’s execution by firing squad would be ‘made public’

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Both outlets center on Jon Ossoff’s attack on Pete Hegseth and on the planned livestreaming of an execution, with The Hill making Ossoff’s quote the headline and The Independent using it as part of a broader criticism from “GOP and Dem critics.” The Independent alone adds the detail that Hegseth said the Fort Hood shooter’s execution would be “made public,” while The Hill alone foregrounds Ossoff’s fuller on-air remark that Hegseth is “a deeply unwell person.”

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