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Princeton, Harvard Grad Pete Hegseth Bashes Ivy League ‘Cartel’

Liberal co-host Jessica Tarlov reminded Fox News viewers of Hegseth’s alma maters, which he deemed to be part of an “educational cartel.”

Fox News host Pete Hegseth, who graduated from Princeton in 2003 and received a master’s degree from Harvard ten years later, complained Friday about schools like those he once attended, calling them an “educational cartel” that “indoctrinates” students. “I have a new rule: the more elite the university and advanced that a graduate is, the dumber they are—the less likely I am to trust them. If you went to the Ivy League, prove to me that you have any common sense at all,” Hegseth said on The Five. When liberal co-host Jessica Tarlov reminded Fox News viewers of Hegseth’s educational history, he pointed out that he “sent…back” his more recent diploma. During a Fox and Friends segment last June, Hegseth engaged in what he admitted would be perceived as a stunt: scribbling “return to sender” over his Harvard diploma because he felt the university had become too engaged with what he called “critical theory.”

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