Escorted
What next? Pete Hegseth accidentally dropping a nuke down Trump’s pants?
As last week got underway, one of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s top advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon. Soon after, Darin Selnick, another top member of Hegseth’s team was out, too.
The same day, nearly every member of the Pentagon’s Defense Digital Service — described as the department’s “fast-track tech development arm” — announced that they’re resigning. Soon after, Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, was also removed from the Pentagon.
Good thing it’s only the Pentagon.
Wait…
And just when it seemed things couldn’t get much worse, they got worse. NBC News reported:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used his personal phone to send information about U.S. military operations in Yemen to a 13-person Signal group chat, including his wife and his brother, two sources with knowledge of the matter confirmed to NBC News. He did so after an aide had warned him to be careful not to share sensitive information on an unsecure communications system before the Yemen operation, the sources said.
Ahh his wife and his brother. Nice touch. Not the next-door neighbor? The UPS guy?
In a normal and healthy political environment, Hegseth would have no choice at this point but to start writing his resignation letter and putting his belongings in a cardboard box. Then again, in a normal and healthy political environment, a president wouldn’t have nominated a manifestly unqualified, scandal-plagued television personality to lead the Defense Department, and in a normal and healthy political environment, his nomination would’ve received zero confirmation votes in the Senate.
In a normal and healthy political environment Donald Trump would never have been nominated, let alone elected.
Did you mean to post this twice?
Yes, because I had to re-do it, but I also meant to delete the first one. Thanks for the notice!
I don’t see the problem with including Mrs. Hegseth in the chat. After all, everyone knows that open and honest communication is important for a successful marriage.
It’s incredible that the Secretary of Defense is or should be disqualified from having any kind of security clearance.
Of course, this President shouldn’t have one either.
This is absolutely grounds for losing a security clearance. Doing it twice concerning the same mission would bring UCMJ charges for active-duty personnel. Hegseth should know this.
Trouble is, in all normal and healthy political environments, ambitious megalomaniacs and authoritarians rise to the top. Sewerage farm workers call them ‘floaters.’ They are known to cause problems.
My mom is convinced Trump is a Russian agent tasked with destroying the country. Sounds like the plan is going well.