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Retired Navy Captain Hung Cao, the Trump-backed Republican running against Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, went on a bizarre and disturbing rant Wednesday, blaming a drag queen for low military recruitment numbers and saying the U.S. military needs people “who are going to rip out their own guts, eat them and ask for seconds.”
During a televised debate, moderator and WRIC anchor Deanna Allbrittin asked Cao to explain a tweet where he claimed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices—which he alleged were a “growing obsession” of the Biden administration—were to blame for eight-decade low military recruitment numbers.
“When you’re using a drag queen to recruit for the Navy that’s not the people we want,” replied Cao. “What we need is alpha males and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat them, and ask for seconds. Those are young men and women that are going to win wars.”
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