Trump pick a threat to US military’s counter-extremism effort, experts warn

Critics fear absolute disaster' and say Pete Hegseth's far-right views will hinder attempts to tackle serious problem

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's embattled choice for secretary of defense, will struggle to handle the serious problem of extremism in the US military due to his own far-right political views, experts in the subject have warned.

I think it's going to be an absolute disaster," said Kristofer Goldsmith, an Iraq war veteran and the CEO of nonprofit watchdog Task Force Butler. Pete Hegseth is a domestic extremist."