BREAKING: Trump White House Has Reportedly ‘Begun Process’ Of Replacing Pete Hegseth https://www.mediaite.com/news/break...edly-begun-process-of-replacing-pete-hegseth/ NPR is reporting that despite public votes of confidence from President Donald Trump and Karoline Leavitt, the White House has begun the process of looking for a new Secretary of Defense to replace Pete Hegseth. According to NPR, “The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.” Throughout the morning on Monday, the White House has publicly gone all out to defend Hegseth despite a tough 24 hours for the embattled defense secretary. Late Sunday, scorching op-ed written a former Pentagon official alleged “total chaos” has broken out on Hegseth’s watch, and new reporting emerged revealing that Hegseth shared details of a sensitive attack against the Houthis in a Signal group chat with his family. Still, Trump went to bat for Hegseth while speaking to reporters outside the White House. “Pete’s doing a great job,” Trump told reporters during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday. He added, “It’s just fake news. They just bring up stories. It sounds like disgruntled employees.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt went so far as to make a stunning claim that the “entire Pentagon” was working to take down Hegseth. “The president stands strongly behind Secretary Hegseth, who is doing a phenomenal job leading the Pentagon,” Leavitt said. “This is what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you and working against the monumental change that you are trying to implement. Secretary Hegseth was nominated for this position because he is standing up for the war fighter — the men and women in uniform who are putting their lives on the line to protect our country and our homeland. And unfortunately, there have been people at that building who don’t like the change the secretary is trying to bring, so they are leaking and they are lying to the mainstream media.” The White House is emphatically denying the NPR story. “This @NPR story is total FAKE NEWS based on one anonymous source who clearly has no idea what they are talking about,” Leavitt wrote in a Monday afternoon post on X. “As the President said this morning, he stands strongly behind @SecDef.” This story is breaking and will be updated.
of course the entire pentagon is disgruntled, a platoon leader to rely cheetos messages second handed, to a roomful of battle hardened four stars. they live and die for the pecking order. you salute the rank, not the person.
Just keep in mind that many of the people Trump announced "he was strongly behind" in his first administration were stabbed in back and tossed out within days. At this point, it is sort of the "kiss of death" for their government roles.
Trump should clean out all the Obama generals and cut the defense budget in half. Trump is going after the low hanging fruit. Corruption once normalized is beyond civilized remedy.
Major Pete has 2 Bronze Stars and is a combat veteran. His service ain't the problem. The Pentagon is full of political hacks in uniform and that has been the case for decades. In another thread I wrote he wasn't qualified. I stand by that, not because he's a bad guy, he just isn't the ass kissing desk jockey who boot licked his way up the ranks. The boyz club at the Pentagon have their profile and Pete doesn't fit. Those arrogant pricks won't take orders from a guy like Pete. Add in some "personal history issues", it's a relationship doomed to fail.
Wait what? If he isn’t qualified as per your own admission then get him the fuck out period. What kind of numbskull would want to hire a unqualified person to lead a department of government one should be over qualified for.. hello anyone home
there was a discussion on reditt, got his major rank from “civil affairs”, not even attended any officer school. go google it.
Trump just trying to shake things up, but going about it wrong. This does not dismiss the fact that the Pentagon needs a complete overhaul with most of the desk jockey types fired. They also need a deep dive audit and financial restrictions put upon them. Pete ain't the guy for that.
I don't care how he got his rank, it's irrelevant. He's not qualified regardless of rank. He did hold the rank of Major for what it's worth, which is nothing outside of active military status.