There is a growing feeling that maybe Pete Hegseth may have finally gone too far. He's on record as basically endorsing war crimes and trying to meme his way to immunity. He's a fucking idiot who stands out for his idiocy in an administration full of idiots.
Not only is he facing Congressional anger - bipartisan Congressional anger - but he and the White House may have also blinked. Both Hegseth and sentient butthole Karoline Leavitt have started to shift the blame for the strikes on Admiral Mitch Bradley. If Bradley is as competent as most admirals and generals - and that is miles more competent than the average Trump official - then he has notes. Copious notes.
The basic ethos of Trump 2.0 is A) commit crimes B) commit those crimes in the open C) know that the DOJ won't investigate D) if someone does, Trump has demonstrated that he will pardon you. For whatever reason, Hegseth is now worried about not getting a pardon or perhaps being sacrificed to the President's critics, similar to the way Donald Rumsfeld was sacrificed after the 2006 midterms.
Trump is a mentally unfit old man who doesn't know what's going on beyond what he sees on Fox News. I doubt that he even knows who Juan Orlando Hernandez is, yet he signed the pardon thrust in front of him. If Susie Wiles tells him to jettison Hegseth, he just might do it. There is the counterargument that Trump cannot show weakness, but he might need to placate his own party by getting rid of this blithering idiot at Defense.
My guess is that it could depend on the results of the special election in Tennessee's 7th CD today. It's a solid, deep red district, but the Democrat is running surprisingly strongly. (I would wager the Republican ekes out a win.)If she wins...Hegseth's firing would be the step a normal administration. But a normal administration would have fired him after SignalGate.
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