BREAKING: Department of Defense Branch Chief Calls President Trump “Illegitimate,” Vows to Resist Him – Attacks Hegseth as “Unfit to Lead” (VIDEO)

Gateway Pundit ^ | April 23, 2025 | Cristina Laila

[Macho MAGA Man]

The O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released undercover video of a Defense Department Branch Chief attacking President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Nicolas Turza, a Department of Defense Branch Chief, called President Trump “illegitimate” and vowed to “resist him, everything he does.”

Turza also attacked Hegseth and said the 44-year-old is “insanely young” and unfit to lead.

“The same guy who tried to overthrow an election is just, like, truly setting us down a path of dictatorship. He’s illegitimate. He’s terribly immoral, breaking every norm. We’re going to resist him. Everything he does,” Turza said about Trump.

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[Macho MAGA Man]

Kudos for James O'Keefe for exposing this treasonous traitor. Fire him and send him to Gitmo. Just think how many others are like him in all sections of the government and military.

[wiseprince]

Why is this person still employed?

[Fester Chugabrew]

Turza is absolutely convinced...in his own mind.

[FirstFlaBn]

Maybe his uncle is a federal judge.

[griswold3]

https://statedemocracydefenders.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/open-letter-opposing-white-house-retaliatory-investigations-041825.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

200 people signed this bipartisan letter against White House retaliatory investigations. A preemptive strike

[Williams]

They really are sick in their heads, ranting about dictatorship.

[Macho MAGA Man]

(Why is this person still employed?)

Read the article. He won’t be for long.

[No name given]

That, or the influence of Schwartz Gyorgy.

[ViLaLuz]

“Retaliatory.” That’s the narrative.

[blueyon]

Hoping Nicolas Turza will be out of work by midnight tonight

[Thank You Rush]

What is a DOD Branch Chief? Looked it up and came up with ZERO...

[Macho MAGA Man]

That’s nuts!

[baclava]

Putin wins again?

Why isn’t he dead yet?

[usconservative]

This isn’t going to end well for him. Just sayin’...

[jjotto]

WTF?

https://www.pli.edu/faculty/nicholas-r.-turza-i2268411

...Nicholas Turza is the Branch Chief for Monitoring and Compliance in the Directorate of Global Investment and Economic Security (GIES), which operates within the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)).

He is responsible for the compliance monitoring and enforcement of all CFIUS and Team Telecom mitigation instruments for which the Department of Defense is a Committee Monitoring Agency (CMA)...

[Da Coyote]

Definitely woke. Stupid, knows everything (or thinks he does), as creative as a rock, and as useful as a snotty kleenex. He should be taking behind a shed and the Obamastuff beaten out of him.

[CatOwner]

And why haven’t we taken out that piece of evil and his spawn?

[ABStrauss]

Straitjacket candidate.

[faithhopecharity]

this Ahole idiot will soon (deservedly) enjoy life clearning the latrine at McMurdo Antarctic Station

[MayflowerMadam]

DOD officials are “handling the situation”.

They’d better be handling the Susan Rice situation, too. And quickly.