Posted on 04/21/2025 6:04:42 AM PDT by RandFan
HEGSETH ON DEFENSE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is braced for further accusations of turmoil and dysfunction in his department today after a barrage of Easter weekend revelations sparked fresh calls for him to be fired. POLITICO last night published a damning op-ed by newly-departed Pentagon spokesperson John Ullyot — who had served Donald Trump in various senior roles since 2016 — describing “total chaos” and “disarray” at the DOD under Hegseth’s leadership, and suggesting Hegseth’s departure is all but inevitable. That came less than two hours after the NYT revealed Hegseth had shared top secret battle plans for an imminent U.S. attack on Houthi rebels in another unsecured Signal chat group — this one containing his own family members. Another tricky week lies ahead.
First read this: Ullyot’s exposé, witten less than 48 hours after he left his job as the Pentagon’s top spokesperson, is scathing about the state of the department. “The building is in disarray under Hegseth’s leadership,” he writes. “The dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president.” Ullyot bemoans a succession of scandals and revelations, concluding: “It’s hard to see Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth remaining in his position for much longer.” POLITICO’s Paul McLeary writes it all up.
Signal/noise: Ullyot’s decision to go public came shortly after the NYT’s Greg Jaffe, Eric Schmitt and Maggie Haberman revealed the existence of a second Signal chat group in which Hegseth apparently shared details of the attack on Houthi rebels on March 15. As with the original Signalgate scandal, Hegseth shared the details in advance of the attack, the NYT says, thus potentially jeopardizing the outcome. But this time, the story adds, he did so in a Signal group he’d set up himself on his personal phone called “Defense | Team Huddle.” And its members were not exactly Cabinet-ranking officials.
Pathetic!
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I don't see a lot wrong. A disgruntled aide? Something about an app he used?
This is their goal.
Wishful thinking, not going to happen.
A house cleaning of a giant entrenched bureaucracy is going to cause a lot of chaos and fight back.
Oh yes I see that. Let him get on with it and I dont care if he used apps to communicate.
This is all ginned up and it’s stupid
They fear him as darkness fears the light.
If he were incompetent, they would want him left in place so the Bolshevik trannies, grannies and capons could continue the Department wide bubble parties.
the neoCONs sure are desperate to remove him. Probably because he didn’t want to start ww3 with Iran and Russia.
It’s the Deep State attempts to remove him before he finds any damaging evidence that might lead to charges of treason.
The RATS are going to be happy until they get Hegseth. The far left maggots want another head on their wall. The only thing the far left insurrectionists have left is fearmongering, “resistance” and “obstructionism.”
We don't want a smooth-running, steady-as-she-goes bureaucracy (DOD) anywhere in government.
In boot camps they take a self-centered, smug, soft individual, tear them down and then build them back as an American Fighting Man; team-centered, confident and strong.
THAT'S what needs to happen to the DOD. All of it.
Still repeating the lie after The Atlantic published what they had and it was nothing
Trump is not either Bush. He does not care what the DNC lie machine is screaming about today
Hegseth is clearly struggling, but there is no good reason for this clown to go public like this. Even if all that he claims is true, he is only inflicting damage on the Admin by his blabbering. So what was he doing in his position to start with? Who vetted him or was he a holdover (either is bad).
What we need is a REALleader in DoD. Does anybody have the phone number of that she-he “admiral” from Brandon’s administration???
SARC OFF (if necessary)
It’s supposed to be a secure line and Hillary and Obama used it...so why is it controversial for him to use it.
Sounds like someone who couldn't serve his boss sniffing around for grift.
Of course there is chaos and turmoil in the Pentagon. There should be. The place needs to be nuked, 80% of the land sold off and a properly sized modernized defense HQs built from the ground up on the remaining ground or maybe move it to Kansas, or, sincce we are doing a China Pivot, point Loma.
you forgot the most important piece:
“POLITICO last night published a damning op-ed by newly-departed Pentagon spokesperson John Ullyot — who had served Donald Trump in various senior roles since 2016 — describing “total chaos” and “disarray” at the DOD under Hegseth’s leadership, and suggesting Hegseth’s departure is all but inevitable”
So a recently fired employee writes an op-ed saying the departure of the guy who fired him inevitable...sounds credible
That dead horse needs beaten one more time
Ullyot is a longtime Trump guy (but we know how that can mean nothing), but also a Harvard grad intel guy.
Even if what he claims is all so about Hegseth, he is harming Trump by chirping like this.
“Chaos” is a generic term that can mean almost anything. Also, funny how they didn’t care about, and even excused, REAL chaos under Biden.
Did Hegseth cancel the $10,000 annual subscriptions by the thousands of federal government employees who could get the same junk for free on the internet?
This is just Russiagate all over. Tons of anonymous accusations from “insiders”, all of which will prove to false. Same old playbook.
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