Defense Minister Trump likes to self -sell, chairing in administrative anarchy.
Pete Hegset, Minister of Defense, likes to post photos of yourself – and you can hardly blame it. On the eve of the NATO meeting in February, hegers sown social media With the photos showing that it works with marine infantry placed in Europe, lifting weights and goes for a jog. His broken visit and sports collection is not just an asset, but perhaps his only sale point. HEGSET continues to take hiring for his appearance, which was not so strange in his previous message as leading Fox News. Being photogenic, goes with work when you appear on television.
On the other hand, the current HEGSET post as a Minister of Defense is usually not a job when the main qualification is visually striking. But Gegset was elected an unusual president for his work. Before becoming the Commander-in-Chief, Donald Trump’s greatest claim to glory was a reality star A PupilWhere he pretended to make decisions for hiring and shooting. As a president, Trump has taken a media -bump to the same questions. His Favorite praise for your own presidential candidates This is what they are right from Central Casting. Apart from Hegegset, Trump is raised At least 18 people Fox News to high -level administrative positions.
If Hegset did not approach the pipe -ideal of a physically attractive person, he may well be unemployed. His nomination was controversial, clearing the Senate only by grace of Vice President J. D. Vens, who rejected the tie. Even Republican Financial settlement 50,000 for charges of rape. Also, his management was nowhere to be near the fact that it is necessary to launch the Pentagon – a complex bureaucracy with more than 3 million people.
As New Yorker report In December, “Gegset was forced to abandon both non -profit propaganda groups that he managed – veterans for freedom and worried about veterans in America – before serious accusations of financial misconduct, sexual absurdity and personal violation.” Freedom veterans worked less than 20 people and are concerned about 160 veterans in America. If Hugset made the hash of these organizations, what could be expected if he was running the world’s largest military?
Not surprisingly, Hegset brought the Pentagon the same disorder and disorder that characterized all its spoiled and dirty life. Part of this pogrom ideological: As I have already noted in the previous column, Trump has The transformation of the military into an institution is possibleUse of troops to stop domestic protests and protest political speeches where soldiers serve as a requisite. Gegset was a very large part of this dangerous politicization of the military who works on Clean the Military Trans -Spectators Just like any positive tributes of civil rights pioneers such as Jackie Robinson and Harvey milk. Hegset has abandoned Robinson’s removal from the Defense Department site after protests, but his common cross campaign is to create right -wing military.
But not only in ideology. The chaotic style of Trump’s management is a logical growth of his strongman, where the whim of the leader has more than a concerted policy.
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In April, John Uliot, a Trump supporter who both held the position of Communication Director in his campaign 2016 and as the Pentagon’s main press secretary during Trump’s first term, prevent in Politics From “General Chaos” in Pentagon. The Utilita’s reproach was responding to New York Times report What Hegset “created a chaos that has no equal in the recent history of the Ministry of Defense.” On the eve of these reports, Don Bacon, the Republican of Nebraska, who serves in the House of Representatives Committee, propose What Hegset should resign, saying, “It looks like a crisis.”
The best account we have in the riot in the Pentagon is deeply registered profile hegseth in New York Magazine written by Kerry Houli. This profile focuses on witch hunting against leaks that came after the poor lighting of the press, in particular, stories dedicated to two cases where HegSeth shared sensitive government information on the signal. As a result of the following negative lighting, Hugset became more paranoid, with his chief of staff Joe Casper, wildly unskilled loyalist, spreading rumors about perceived enemies. At one point, hegset threatened Admiral Christopher, Vice -Chair of the Joint Chief of Staff: “I will connect you to a terrible polygraph!”
One of the regret that regrets this upheaval is the dismissal of key advisers around Hegset, who had a true administrative experience, including Chief of Staff of Deputy Defense Minister Colin Carol, Senior Advisor Dan Caldwell and Deputy Chief of Staff Darin Selnik. These were very necessary voices of prudence. The decrease in Koldwell was especially sorry because he was a leading supporter of more restrained foreign policy.
This cleaning was accompanied by HEGSET, who surrounded the internal circle of loyalists and family members, including his personal lawyer Tim Parliator, his brother Phil Hugset and his wife Jennifer Hegset. These loyalists are now working with Hegets in the Pentagon. He is especially dedicated to his wife, keeping seven photos in his office. He says he owes two “j”: Jesus and Jennifer.
Howley provides a bright picture of the upheaval in the Defense Department:
The Pentagon sources describe a steady sense of instability in these months. People threw or were fired and the roles remained unfilled …
Gegset was different after SignalAccording to six people, in the opportunity to know. It was more prone to anger and less likely to be clean shaved morning. He seemed reluctant to make decisions; I’m afraid to do the wrong thing, paralyzed when he expected ordered from the White House. The Pentagon stopped, says one of the sources to be “creative”; It was a mechanism for the implementation of executive orders. Each new leak contributed to the feeling of Hegset that it was surrounded by a bars in the league with its enemies.
This level of Pentagon chaos will be disturbing enough even under normal conditions (as rarely as in modern American history). But they are even more worried because Donald Trump betrayed his promise to avoid wars. In the second term, Trump seemed sought to accommodate troops at home and abroad, on the streets of Los -Andgeles, as well as over Iran’s sky. The minority of the votes that advocate the restraint in the Trump administration or were cleaned (as it happened with Caldwell) or is silent (as it seems, in the case of Vice -President J. D. Vens and the director of Tuls Gabard’s national intelligence).
It would be a good time for Congress to investigate the HEGSET Pentagon and push him resignation. While some in Congress, such as Don Bacon, show in this direction, the sad fact is in a new two -party trend, is the attack enough. In the presentation of the raciagate nonsense of the first term Trump, the Democrats of Congress and the Republicans Combining for upbringing HEGGE To stop the shipment of weapons to Ukraine. Regardless of the policy of this issue, this is a minor case compared to the policy of the Pentagon Defense and Chaotic Management. Here, like elsewhere, a two -party institution continues to prosecute the White House of Trump.
