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Tulsi Gabbard AND Pete Hegseth Are Both Being Cut Out of Key Decisions by Trump

The military parade is taking a lot of criticize because people look at it through Trump's eyes. And he's all about expressions of bellicose power.

But the army was determined to not do that. They gave us a history lesson instead.

It was, in a sense, an Army protest against Trump.
 
trixare4kids said:
We all should know by now that the WA. Post and CNN are famous for citing their anonymous sources,
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As well they should be!
trixare4kids said:
such as "a person familiar with the session" or "administration officials" said blah, blah, blah.
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The truth is, we all know by now that the only reliable sources are the anonymous ones. The people who are willing to speak openly about what's really going on are just the propaganda mouthpieces who risk nothing by what they're saying. True journalism, the best journalism, relies heavily on unnamed sources. The only way to get to the truth is to get it "off the record", and then have it confirmed "off the record" by any number of other individuals, none of whom is willing to be named. As soon as someone in D.C. goes "on the record", you can be absolutely certain that you're getting nothing but spin - the false leak engineered for political purposes.
trixare4kids said:
Just so you know, spokespeople for Gabbard and Hegseth, Olivia Coleman and Sean Parnell, have disputed these claims, calling them "completely false".

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Tulsi Gabbard AND Pete Hegseth Are Both Being Cut Out of Key Decisions by Trump: Reports

A new report revealed that not only has DNI Tulsi Gabbard been iced out of top-level discussions on Iran, but so has Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
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It astounds me that, in this day and age, so many fools think that it's the anonymous sources can't be trusted. If the facts revealed were really lies, and the people exposed were innocent of the claims, then those who exposed them would be sued for defamation, and the truth would come out in court.
 
Allan said:
The late night show hosts mocked the squeaky Sherman tanks, sparse crowds, Rubio yawning and Trump napping.

I personally didn't like the tank mocking and I'm sure Donald didn't like to be fodder for comedians.
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I agree.
 
MamboDervish said:
It astounds me that, in this day and age, so many fools think that it's the anonymous sources can't be trusted.
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It astounds me that MAGA can fluff off anonymous sources when presented by real media, traditional journalists.

I can only attribute your comment to Fox News brain washing.
 
Allan said:
This is a Washington Post story but I'm using a different news source that isn't paywalled.

Obviously Tulsi embarrassed Trump by contradicting his and Israel's statements about Iran's weapons program.

Not sure what Pete did.



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Tulsi Gabbard AND Pete Hegseth Are Both Being Cut Out of Key Decisions by Trump: Reports

A new report revealed that not only has DNI Tulsi Gabbard been iced out of top-level discussions on Iran, but so has Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
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Mediate? Got any legitimate sources?
 
911Sparky said:
trump will need to wait a few months to find a valid reason to fire them, if he does it now it appears to be a bad decision on his part. We all know it was.
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True - but no matter when he fires them, we will still know that it was a bad decision on his part, so .... there is that.
 
Mycroft said:
Nonsense.

The "unnamed sources" stories almost ALWAYS turn out to be fake bullshit.


More bullshit.

That's NOT what he said.
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Yeah so anyways we can just ignore this nonsense.

Odds are she is in the shot can because she is a pro Russia stooge where hegs is just stupid. Shouldn't tell him because he will just tell everyone one signal..
 
Callen said:
Thank goodness they are both in the outer circle. Neither is competent and Gabbard is particularly worrisome given her connections to pro Iranian strongmen. Poor Pete didn't deliver on the parade.......that was a mortal sin.
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There is truth to the fact that if Pete's parents got a divorced, they would still be related.
 
Fearandloathing said:
The parade was a bust.

He's pissed and wants revenge.

Anyone looking at that sad affair would have sympathy for him if he wasn't such a prick
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He knows Putin, Orban, Xi, Jong Un are laughing at it. And him. Poor TACO.
 
yankintx said:
The treadmark on Tulsis forehead is from a golf cart, she is toast.
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It's a puzzle to me why she is still there. I mean he outright said publicly his Director of National Intelligence is wrong in her assessment. Interestingly before Wednesday he didn't seem to know that was their assessment. It's been reported regularly that he doesn't like or do briefings. Who is he listening to? Who is he getting his intelligence information from? Just Israel?
 
Bok Tuklo said:
Shit Trump birthday parade.
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As I watched the totally disrespectful "by the route step" parade I paid attention to the camera showing the review platform a lot of the time.

Hegseth The Horrible who sat at the right of the Generalissimo never spoke to each other. Most of the time Trump was looking left while Heggie was looking right. While Trump dozed from time to time Heggie sat sometimes with his eyes closed as if in a trance. While Trump's head sank during his dozing Hegseth sat fixed like a statue in a graveyard.

After Hegseth fired his own choices as his chief of staff and other positions in his office but not only, there isn't anyone who will join his office staff. I've seen reports recently that half the Pentagon is paralyzed and the other half of it is in chaos. This is of course while Iran-Israel and Ukraine-Russia continue to pound each other. And as Trump has no one at the Pentagon he trusts to do his bidding.
 
Callen said:
It's a puzzle to me why she is still there. I mean he outright said publicly his Director of National Intelligence is wrong in her assessment. Interestingly before Wednesday he didn't seem to know that was their assessment. It's been reported regularly that he doesn't like or do briefings. Who is he listening to? Who is he getting his intelligence information from? Just Israel?
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Trump is loathe to fire anyone he's appointed in Trump 2.0.

Gabbard as DNI and Hegseth as SecDef are lame ducks. This reality must also distress Trump, to have people he no longer trusts to take care of what's important to him personally and individually yet he feels he's stuck with 'em probably through the rest of the year.
 
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