'Without honor': Marine vet raises red flag about key Trump defense nominee

Author and Marine veteran Philip Klay on Thursday expressed concern about the role that Trump Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth played in lobbying him to pardon war criminals during his first term in office.

Writing in the New York Times, Klay highlights Hegseth's efforts on behalf of 1st Lt. Clint Lorance, a convicted war criminal whom Trump pardoned in 2019.

Klay begins by giving a grisly account of Lorance's past misdeeds while serving in Afghanistan.

"One day [Lorance] threatened to kill a farmer and his son...