Senator-elect Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) said on ABC’s “This Week” that President-elect Donald Trump was risking “politicizing the military” with his cabinet picks.
Partial transcript as follows:
MARTHA RADDATZ: You have experience across the national security space, including defense and the CIA. So — so let’s start with the nomination of Pete Hegseth for the head of Department of Defense. This morning, his lawyer acknowledging he paid off a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017, but he says he is an innocent victim, although his lawyers say witnesses saw him visibly intoxicated at the time of this incident. What’s your reaction to that and to his nomination?
SLOTKIN: I mean, I think in general, I’m — I’m a senator-elect and Advice and Consent from the Senate is part of our constitutional process. So I’m going to try and meet with everybody, hear…
