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TRUMP ADMIN VETTING CRISIS CONTINUED
X ^ | 4/8/25 | Laura Loomer

Posted on 04/08/2025 6:07:35 PM PDT by hardspunned

EXCLUSIVE: How the Department of Defense under @PeteHegseth is at risk of possibly being subverted and obstructed by Earl Matthews @EarlMat55106636, the nominee for General Counsel of the DOD @DeptofDefense

As the general counsel for the National Guard, Earl Matthews was the lawyer involved in dismissing Pete Hegseth from the DC national guard over false accusations that Hegseth has a “white supremacist” tattoo. Now, Earl Matthews has been nominated to be Hegseth’s top lawyer at the Pentagon, which is another vetting failure.

Today, April 08, 2025, Earl Matthews, who is essentially John Bolton and Mark Milley’s errand boy, faced the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing as the nominee for General Counsel of the Department of Defense. If he is confirmed, Matthews would be the Pentagon’s top lawyer.

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TOPICS: Government; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: concerntroll; concerntrolling; dod; earlmatthews; fakenewssource; gotloomered; hds; hegseth; lauraloomer; loomer; loomered; loonyloomer; loopylaura; tds; tdsmole; vetting; vettingcrisis
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Nothing’s going to change. Isn’t there anyone who can make Trump aware of how this administration is being subverted as badly as his first was?
1 posted on 04/08/2025 6:07:35 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

Seriously??? Know way near, but there are still some blind spots.


2 posted on 04/08/2025 6:11:08 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: hardspunned

Who nominated Earl Matthews?


3 posted on 04/08/2025 6:11:15 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: hardspunned

Some of us saw it coming long before it got here. But we were stoned for even mentioning it.

Here is another one to watch...

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4309790/posts


4 posted on 04/08/2025 6:17:23 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: hardspunned

If he had anything to do with giving legal advice regarding the Mational Guard refusing to deploy to the USCapitol on J6 as requested or to do with Milley singlehandedly declaring that Trump was not allowed to act as CINC that day, this guy actually needs to be sent to Gitmo.


5 posted on 04/08/2025 6:24:03 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: hardspunned
Isn’t there anyone who can make Trump aware of how this administration is being subverted as badly as his first was

Uh, yeah. Laura Loomer.

6 posted on 04/08/2025 6:26:49 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: hardspunned
Loomer may be nuts but she's right in this one.

Earl Matthews is swamp. So Trump needs to ask him to resign.

7 posted on 04/08/2025 6:31:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: hardspunned
Nothing’s going to change. Isn’t there anyone who can make Trump aware of how this administration is being subverted as badly as his first was?

First of all, there is no evidence that the vetting problems are anywhere near the problem it was in his 1st Administration.

Secondly, CALM DOWN!

Trump and his team will solve this issue.
8 posted on 04/08/2025 6:39:38 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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People need to take a break. The hyperventilating will give people hives.


9 posted on 04/08/2025 6:43:58 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: hardspunned

Laura Loomer is absolutely awesome. She’s the best investigative journalist out there.


10 posted on 04/08/2025 6:45:31 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: hardspunned

No matter how good things go, half of this place has a nervous breakdown every 15 minutes.


11 posted on 04/08/2025 6:46:47 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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Interesting nominees.

Earl Matthews nominated for General Counsel of the Department of Defense.

Susan Monarez nominated to be the Director of the CDC.

Steven Jensen has been PROMOTED by FBI Director Kash Patel to lead the powerful Washington D.C. Field Office.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4309265/posts


12 posted on 04/08/2025 6:46:52 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: hardspunned
Said it before and now again - Trump would be better served by picking people out of his rally crowds to serve in his admin than scooping vermin out of The Swamp.
13 posted on 04/08/2025 6:50:37 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Everyone that voted Trump/R in '24 needs to show up in '26.)
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To: hardspunned

“Hegseth has a “white supremacist” tattoo”

There’s another elephant in the room.

How can someone be thrown out of the National Guard for a Jerusalem Cross?

It really isn’t hard to look it up online if you don’t know what it is.

Surely his National Guard commanders can’t be this sloppy.


14 posted on 04/08/2025 6:52:32 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: jacknhoo

She’s tenacious, I’ll give her that.


15 posted on 04/08/2025 6:53:32 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Uncle Sugar" is being audited and having an enema.)
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To: hardspunned

Looks like Earl’s nomination may be yanked, because THANK GOD Trump seems to be finally listening to Loomer.


16 posted on 04/08/2025 6:54:18 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Major Matt Mason

“Said it before and now again - Trump would be better served by picking people out of his rally crowds to serve in his admin than scooping vermin out of The Swamp.”

I absolutely agree with you...


17 posted on 04/08/2025 6:55:33 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: MtnClimber

“Who nominated Earl Matthews?”

Exactly. But Grok says Trump nominated him. So, digging down one level, who advised the President to nominate him?

Grok says nobody knows who advised the President, but Grok says “Trump leans on personal loyalty and familiarity—Matthews checks both boxes. Without insider leaks (none surfaced by now), it’s a safe bet the advice came from his inner defense and legal crew—Hegseth, Waltz, or even Matthews himself pitching his case—rather than a single loud voice.”


18 posted on 04/08/2025 6:55:42 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Don't be a "PANICAN" or a "PANICRAT")
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“She’s tenacious, I’ll give her that.”

She is probably Trump’s strongest and most loyal proactive supporter out there.


19 posted on 04/08/2025 6:58:00 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

Thanks for link, a very good observation.

A Traitor is always a traitor.

But I did not know he was a business partner of Vance.

I don’t see any of that in Vance.


20 posted on 04/08/2025 7:00:35 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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