President Donald Trump brought in Pete Hegseth to head the Department of Defense because he’s a combat-tested warrior, not because of his management skills, according to Michael Savage, whose weekly show “Savage Nation” premieres at 8 p.m. Eastern time Sunday on Newsmax. 

“Of course, he’s not a great manager,” Savage said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.” “That’s exactly why Trump hired him. If you put a great manager in who ran a corporation instead of a warrior, you’re going to have the same old corruption inside the Defense Department that we’ve had since the day of Eisenhower.”

That would have meant “self-serving dealmaking [and] not thinking about the troops on the ground,” said Savage.

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