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The hearing also shed light on the dissonance in Kaine's inquiries. When pressed by Hegseth on whether allegations of domestic violence should disqualify someone from becoming Secretary of Defense, Kaine’s response wavered on definitional grounds, creating a spectacle that many deemed a mockery of the English language. His insistence that hypotheticals weren’t hypotheticals reflected a much broader issue of clarity and understanding within the supposed 'greatest deliberative body in the world.'