He's an embarrassment. Even the few remaining sentient Republicans in Congress know it. Shame on the 50 gutless Republican senators who voted to confirm this incompetent, unqualified, alcoholic, wife-beating and philandering idiot.
On Friday, Hegseth fired three of his most loyal senior staffers, claiming they were fired for leaking sensitive information as part of an
investigation ordered earlier this month. (Such irony, Hegseth worrying about "leaking" while blathering highly sensitive military information over unsecured devices.)
It was a lie. The department said that it would conduct polygraph tests as part of the probe, but none of the three were tested. In fact, at least one of them has told former colleagues that investigators advised him he was about to be cleared officially of any wrongdoing.
Once the Signalgate story broke, Hegseth
tried to lie his way out of it through a
vague, non-denial denial that “nobody was texting war plans.”
This led to reporter Jeffrey Goldberg to
release Hegseth’s full chat string with the detailed operational plans two days later, turning an already-big story into a multi-week embarrassment for the president’s national security team as the extent of Hegseth's duplicity became obvious. Hegseth now
faces an inspector general investigation into a possible leak of classified information and violation of records retention protocols.
Hegseth “brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed.
The Pentagon
set up a top-secret briefing by the Joint Chiefs of Staff on China for Elon Musk, who still has extensive business interests in China. After learning about it, the
White House canceled that meeting.
On Sunday night,
The New York Times reported that Hegseth shared details about the Yemen strike
in another Signal chat that included his wife and brother.
