President-elect Donald Trump's decision to select Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to be his defense secretary drew immediate controversy given his long history of incendiary comments and his past lobbying on behalf of convicted war criminals.

Analyzing the pick of Hegseth on CNN, Democratic strategist Karen Finney argued that it's a foreboding signal about how Trump intends to govern in his second term.

"Donald Trump is looking for someone who will just follow orders," she said. "When the president says, 'I want you to use troops on American soil against the American people,' he wants somebody who's not going to question that."

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This led to an angry objection from Republican operative Brad Todd.

"That's an outrageous allegation!" he said. "Stop with this! You lost! You lost, Karen! The election's over! Give the president a chance to run the country! 75 million Americans voted for him!"

"I'm just quoting what he said," Finney shot back. "He said that he might consider using the military on American soil against Americans."

"The campaign's over!" Todd insisted.

"I'm quoting your guy," said Finney.

During the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly referred to his political opponents as "the enemy from within" and in one interview with Fox Business even suggested that the American military could be used to put them down.

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