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š Waltz, SecDef SignalGate | Hegseth copies wife, lawyer on second Signal thread
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dukeman92
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JCTarheel82
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So Hegseth didn't even make it three months before becoming persona non grata in Trump's Cabinet. I wonder which Fox News host Orange Jesus will tap next for SecDef. Or maybe he'll go Newsmax or OAN this time. The possibilities for incompetent, unqualified right wing media sycophants are almost endless.
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He may now end up holding the record for shortest term as Secretary of Defense (not including acting SODs, who are merely placeholders). The previous record was 114 days, held by Elliot Richardson. But Richardson didnāt get fired from that position; he just got moved to Attorney General, a position he resigned from just a few months later when Nixon asked him to interfere with the Watergate investigation.
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StrangePackage
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I want to say that having an unregistered foreign agent in charge of the Pentagon is beyond even the current Republican Party.
But I can't.
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Two immediate thoughts:
1) I really wish voting day was tomorrow so she'd be turned away at her precinct.
2) Is the Secretary now officially undocumented?
You need to think bigger. We already have an unregistered foreign agent as DNI...
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And like clockwork, Karoline Leavitt Riefenstahl declares with an all-caps tweet that this is FAKE NEWS.
White House responds to NPR report on search for Hegseth replacement: āFAKE NEWSā
The White House on Monday blasted an NPR report that a search was underway for a new Pentagon chief as āfake newsā following new reporting about Defense Secretary Pete Hegsethās use of ā¦
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JCTarheel82
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She may need to lay off the sunless tanner for a bit.
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I don't know. The thing is, Congress knows this stuff. They gave Trump one chance and it was a royal fuckup. I would think they would be telling Trump to give them a by-the-book standard-fare candidate or they won't confirm. Sort of the way Bush floated Harriet Miers and the conservative legal community was like fuck no so he came back with the cookie-cutterest choice of them all. While I scoffed at the Miers selection and still do, we'd be better off as a nation if she had been confirmed.
Trump's losing popularity fast enough that senators will be able to cross him. Some of them might go out of their way to pick said fight (if gentle) to signal independence from Trump -- I'm thinking of Tillis and Collins. I doubt they are going to embarrass themselves again. Obviously I could be wrong.
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āFull-blown meltdownā at Pentagon after Hegsethās second Signal chat revealed
Existence of group chat including Hegseth, his wife and others prompt calls for defense secretary to step down
The Guardian has independently confirmed the existence of Hegsethās own private group chat.
According to unnamed sources familiar with the chat who spoke to the Times, Hegseth sent the private group of his personal associates some of the same information, including the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets that would strike Houthi rebel targets in Yemen, that he also shared with another Signal group of top officials that was created by Mike Waltz, the national security adviser.
The existence of the Signal group chat created by Waltz, in which detailed attack plans were divulged by Hegseth to other Trump administration officials on the private messaging app, were made public by the Atlantic magazineās Jeffrey Goldberg, who had been accidentally added to the group.
The existence of a second Signal chat, coupled with Ullyotās devastating portrait of the Pentagon under Hegseth, is likely to increase pressure on the White House to take action.
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And like clockwork, Karoline Leavitt Riefenstahl declares with an all-caps tweet that this is FAKE NEWS.
White House responds to NPR report on search for Hegseth replacement: āFAKE NEWSā
The White House on Monday blasted an NPR report that a search was underway for a new Pentagon chief as āfake newsā following new reporting about Defense Secretary Pete Hegsethās use of ā¦thehill.com
Didn't Ku Klux Klannah Montana tell us all that Trump had no intention of backing down from his tariffs... one day before backing down from his tariffs?
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Yep. 5% chance Hegseth makes it to the weekend.
Iāll take that bet. 20:1 odds?
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Yep. The Trump administration (and Republican Party in general) has been waging a war on the very notion of experts, expertise, the importance of experience and training, credentials, etc. The only "qualifications" Trump cares about are how willing they are to constantly kiss his ass, flatter him relentlessly, and obey his every whim, no matter how crazy or contradictory. If Hegseth is forced to step down Trump will likely do just what you said - get another Fox News or right-wing celebrity with no actual training or experience for the job to take the post. What will be interesting is seeing how Republican Senators justify and twist themselves into pretzels to vote for his next nominee for the post.