By Michael Woyton
If the Department of Defense were a commercial airplane, and the person piloting it were a former weekend talkshow host, and the plane were on fire with most of the crew having already bailed out, then that might describe what Pete “WhiskyLeaks” Hegseth is going through now.
Except that he is saying that everything’s hunky-dory while blaming the media and “anonymous” sources for his troubles, even though one of the sources wasn’t so anonymous by writing a signed opinion piece for Politico.
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At the White House rich-donor Easter egg hunt Monday, the embattled, incompetent possibly intoxicated defense secretary honored the spirit of the event by saying that the media is after him along with disgruntled former employees “and then they try and slash and burn people and ruin their reputations.” (Too late, Petey.)
Hegseth said the latest controversy — that he included his wife, brother and personal lawyer on a group chat about the bombings in Yemen — was “old news,” even though it broke on Sunday.
The “old news” followed even older news from March reported by Atlantic magazine that said senior administration officials, including the vice president and national security adviser, were all on an encrypted but unclassified commercial app talking about operational details for the missile strikes — while the editor-in-chief of the magazine was also on the group chat, the New York Times said.
The Times pointed out that Hegseth’s wife, a former Fox News producer, is not a DOD employee but has traveled with him and been included in sensitive meetings.
“Mr. Hegseth’s brother Phil and Tim Parlatore, who continues to serve as his personal lawyer, both have jobs in the Pentagon, but it is not clear why either would need to know about upcoming military strikes aimed at the Houthis in Yemen,” the Times reported.
President Donald J. Felon, through his spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt, said he is standing “strongly behind” Hegseth.
Leavitt added that this is all because the whole of the Pentagon is working against Hegseth who is trying to implement monumental change. In other words: victimhood.
All of this means Hegseth has to go because he is a security risk. In fact, he should never have been nominated or approved, and that is on the corrupt president and the corrupt Republican Party.
With a history of alcohol abuse and accusations of rape, frankly, Hegseth’s nomination should never have gotten out of committee.
The grifter-in-chief picked him because he thought he looked the part — with his questionable tattoos — and was more than willing to suck up to him.
So in other words, Hegseth fit in with the rest of the cabinet and appointees.
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Nice to know what will be included in one’s obituary, huh, Shady Vance?
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