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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 somebo…