Posted on 04/21/2025 9:14:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Trump didn’t choose Pete Hegseth by accident. He picked him because Hegseth gets it. He’s not some slick DC ladder climber or Pentagon career bureaucrat trying to win over the elite cocktail circuit. He’s a warfighter who came home and never forgot that he served the American people. And more importantly, he’s one of the only men in The Swamp willing to gut the rot from the inside out.
That’s why he was chosen.
Hegseth is exactly what Trump’s America First agenda demands: a strong, unapologetic defense secretary who puts US interests first and rejects endless wars and who happily took a chainsaw to the Obama/Biden regime’s woke policies destroying our military. Under Hegseth’s leadership, the Pentagon has gotten rid of the Biden rainbow patches, pronoun workshops, drag shows on bases—all of it. He’s been tearing out the progressive weeds that turned our fighting forces into a left-wing petri dish experiment instead of a lethal machine built to protect this nation.
And that is just one reason why they want him gone.
The moment you start undoing what the globalists built, the uniparty strikes back with a vengeance. And right now there’s a highly coordinated campaign to take down Pete Hegseth.
You can feel it in the media leaks, the DC whispers, and the sudden anonymous sources telling tales of “chaos.” This isn’t about performance. It’s about power. And Hegseth, more than anyone else in the building, threatens the entire establishment war racket.
This is the Uniparty playbook 101: when they can’t control someone, they try to destroy them with stories of “chaos,” “disruption,” and “instability.” It’s straight out of the Marxist handbook—manufacture a crisis, then use that crisis as an excuse to purge your political enemies.
And right on cue, here comes the latest example…
Former Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot just wrote a hit piece for Politico claiming that the Pentagon is in “total chaos” under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, even going so far as to suggest that Hegseth may not last much longer in his role. He paints this ultra-dramatic picture of dysfunction and disorder—exactly the kind of narrative the uniparty loves to feed the press when they want to oust someone who is standing in their way.
Ullyot may have had ties to the Trump world at one time, but now he’s doing the media’s bidding. Although, Don Jr. believes Ullyot has been working against his father for quite sometime.
Look:
This guy is not America First. I’ve been hearing for years that he works his ass off to subvert my father’s agenda. That ends today. He’s officially exiled from our movement. https://t.co/C2JnnIPt0y— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 21, 2025
Also, Ullyot is saying he resigned voluntarily.
The Pentagon says he was asked to leave.
Either way, it looks like the script has been handed out, and everyone’s playing their role.
Take a look at this blip from the Politico hit piece on Hegseth:
Yashar Ali:
NEW
John Ullyot, who until last week was chief Pentagon spokesman, has written a piece in Politico in which he says the Pentagon is in “total chaos” and that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unlikely to remain in his role.
“The building is in disarray under Hegseth’s leadership… the dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president — who deserves better from his senior leadership.”
Ullyot, who has a long history in Trump world, including work in both administrations and on the 2016 campaign, says he resigned from his position voluntarily. The Pentagon says he was asked to resign.
The Deep State, the Democrat machine, and the GOP’s military-industrial lapdogs are circling the wagons. Just look what the official X Democrat Party account had to say:
However, the more they circle, the more President Trump rallies behind Hegseth.
They see Hegseth for what he is: a direct threat to their failed agenda—and they’re pulling every string they’ve got to oust him.
And now we’re seeing exactly how desperate they are, and MAGA sees it too…
Charlie Kirk’s response to the Dem Party’s post says it all:
Conservative influencer Robby Starbuck also sees the writing on the wall and is calling out the uniparty’s “orchestrated campaign” to take down Hegseth and is also calling on all Trump supporters to rally behind Pete.
Influencer and podcaster Charlie Kirk lobbed another powerful hit against the uniparty by pointing out that under Hegseth, the military is thriving.
Charlie Kirk:
When they come after Pete Hegseth, just remember everything they DON’T want to talk about…
Recruiting is up. Morale is up. Standards are up. Efficiency is up. America’s influence is up. And most importantly, lethality is up.
What’s down? Only the influence of neocons and warmongers, and the use of the military to promote politicized nonsense. That’s what they want back — it’s not about some Signal chat.
This smear campaign is about crushing the one guy brave enough to stand against endless wars and the woke, rainbow-flag makeover of our military.
He’s dismantling their activist agenda and reminding the Pentagon what it’s actually there to do: defend this country, not play social justice dress-up. Just look at Pete’s response to the Dem Party’s X post against him:
That’s why they fear him. And that’s exactly why we need to rally around him now, louder and stronger than ever.
Sounds like Flynn version 2.
When is the last time you’ve head any SECDEF use words like warfighter and lethality?
Maybe Rumsfeld but certainly no one after him.
To the author: “Ya think?”
this seems to have started with Signal-gate when they strangely demanded Pete’s head, not Mike Waltz’s.
“”There is a highly orchestrated, dark campaign afoot to take down Pete Hegseth…””
Reality Check: I hate to break it to ya, but... there’s a “highly orchestrated, dark campaign afoot to take down” everyone and anyone in a position of power in the GOP.
I want to know what the Trump regime is doing to out the moles, spys and embedded traitors within their ranks. I’m hoping they’re not running around with their pants down around their ankles (like in the first term) and are only in ‘reaction’ mode vs. pro-active mode re: outting and prosecuting these insurrectionists (For one past example, see: FBI agents Strzok and Page).
So far, I have seen no “consequences” befall the bad guys and other than a few people retiring or resigning... no real evidence that there is a restored justice.
Hope springs...
Its the old media playbook - create a firestorm of accusations, which are amplified by the corrupt media, and give the impression of “corruption.”
GOP Presidents of the past 70 years would feel the need to “do something” and fire someone.
in 2017, it even worked on Trump to get Michael Flynn fired and put Trump on the back foot for 4 years on the BS Russia-gate.
He won’t fall for it again.
Th s is happening because Pete Hegseth is effective.
I have to laugh at the attacking jackals, some of whom are Freepers right here.
Pass the pop corn.
Hegseth is the bait for the trap. Let them expose themselves and clean house.
“Total chaos” my ass. Same thing is going on in the State Dept. The entrenched automatons aren’t working for the Dems or the Uniparty anymore and don’t want to, or can’t, deal with the new bosses.
LGBT is strong and powerful.
Attack the people who are behind the attack. Does the DOD not know this strategy?
The only people that buy this crap are left wing nuts and cowards in the middle along with easily duped “conservatives” like we get here a lot.
You just to look at who, what & why some are against Pete Hegseth to see where Hegseth is coming from.
Hey, N00B troll,
good to hear of your “concern”.
Pete Hegseth another of the democrats greatest fears for being targeted for umm dirty deeds.
The military industrial complex has to consider Hesgeth a threat to 100s of billions and even trillions of dollars of profits.
The left wants a Team Trump scalp
That’s why he was chosen.
And is exactly the reason the left is trying to destroy him.
The more the left hates someone the better I know they are for this country.
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