Top Generals Raise Alarm Over Trump and Hegseth

0:00top military generals and admirals passed and present are warning that Hegsith and Trump are destroying and have destroyed our once great military. In the past 24 hours, take a look at some of these headlines leaking out from the inside of the Pentagon and from the inside of our top military layers. Hegsith's culture war fixation disrupting army progress sources. Hegsith extends midi's deployments into 2027 escalating strain on troops. Trump has told AIDS privately, he believes his strategy will eventually work as 50,000 troops remain on hand to give him options. Meanwhile, our top admirals and generals all gave a do not concur in the Secretary of Defense order books in response to that plan. So what did Hegsith and Donald Trump do yesterday?

1:03Oh yeah, the Pentagon has now cut off access to classified information amid Iran war concerns, documents associated with the Secretary of Defense order books that were once on a classified portal were deleted and removed from the internal Pentagon web portal after the Washington Post report. This is what three people have now leaked to the Washington Post, meanwhile, a top Republican senator who previously voted to confirm Pete Hegsith has now said once again, Hegsith needs to go Hegsith is incompetent Hegsith can't lead and Hegsith is destroying our military all the while. Pete Hegsith is posting photos of high school students in Canada who are cadets not actually in the Canadian military in the summer cadet program and Hegsith is shaming them and

2:06mocking the children the kids. This is what the US Secretary of Defense is doing a vile and despicable piece of trash. Meanwhile, Axios reports Pentagon turmoil deepens as Hegsith consolidates control. This of course follows Dan Driscoll the former army secretary, resigning from his position and we now know a lot of information about that resignation that Driscoll met with Donald Trump and said it's me or Hegsith and Hegsith is destroying the military we're out of ammunition. He's fired our top military leaders our top generals and our admirals and we are screwed and Trump's like I want Hegsith okay that's who I'm going to go with and according to some sources some sources Donald Trump just wanted to speak with Driscoll about the golden ballroom and how much Xi Jinping is going to love the golden ballroom and how much Putin will love the golden ballroom

3:12and isn't that grand and Driscoll like I'm getting the hell out of here. Axios reporting this summary of events Hegsith has fired or forced out senior officers across nearly every service including the chairman of the joint chiefs the navy's top admiral and the army chief of staff the Washington Post counts more than two dozen top officers dismissed under Hegsith who who has remade nearly the entire joint chiefs only the Marine Corps and Space Force chiefs he inherited are still serving the New York Times reports that Hegsith has also personally removed at least 45 officers from promotional list this year an extraordinary intervention in a system traditionally insulated from political leadership NBC reports Tuesday that Hegsith has blocked more promotions in recent weeks including more than a dozen black Hispanic or female officers

4:13across the services because Hegsith has demonstrated that he is a very racist individual and people knew this about him before he is refusing to promote people in our military who are qualified simply because they are black they are Hispanic and they are women what a vile scumbag loser Hegsith is now the Republican senator who made posts yesterday about how Hegsith needs to go was the Republican senator who cast the decisive vote confirming Hegsith Republican senator over here Tom tell us ripping Hegsith and saying hegs dude you confirm the guy it's because of you tell us your legacy will be you contributed to the destruction of the United States military by putting this low life this scumbag loser in charge of the defense department this was a guy

5:16Hegsith who couldn't run a nonprofit a small veterans nonprofit he ran he mismanaged that and you're gonna put him in by the way all the other accusations against him you're gonna put this guy in charge this is what Tom Tillis Republican senator had to say yesterday here play this clip Pete access has demonstrated to me he doesn't have a confidence to run a large complex organization and we always need a highly confident highly focused unselfish leader of the Department of Defense I'll show you more in a bit about what other members of congress are saying about how Tillis needs to go but this was the story by the Washington Post with high level leaks from top military officials documents associated with the secretary of defense order books the SDOBs were removed from an internal web portal on the secret internet protocol router network the cybernet three people familiar with the matter tall Dan and Alex horn and Alex Horton who they've been doing some great

6:21reporting the Washington Post defense reporters and the other top defense reporters actually do a very stellar job and they were pushed out of the Pentagon by Hegsith Hegsith has now referred to all of the surrounding area around him as a skiff a sensitive compartment and information facility so that he can just say everything around him he's classified so the press can't get near me he hasn't held a brief for months and months and months hasn't addressed anything about the catastrophic war and instead we also learn that the Pentagon has hired all of these mega influencers on X who masquerade as mega influencers but they are feds yeah the people who accused others of the deep state turns out they're the deep state blood of these mega X influencers work for the Pentagon they're literally feds hired by Hegsith to spew regime propaganda heck in 1984 or

7:24wellian stuff isn't that bad it was bad but on that bad take a look at this Washington post article they go on and report about how the SDOB the secretary of defense order book is kept on this ciper net portal as it's called and there is access to this portal by certain people who have the right types of classification credentials after the Washington post reported how some of the top commanders did a do not concur with Hegsith's war plans for 2027 hegsith basically removed the ciper net portal link to this SDOB report and the associated documents and they are now hiding that from the American people how utterly sick that's how thin skinned he is that they're deleting the portal and they delete the portal just get rid of the information Hegsith run Hegsith you fricken

8:26loser you then we have a republican congress member bacon don bacon who was in the military had a fairly high ranking position in the military he agrees with tom tillis that Hegsith's got to go play this clip so congressman do you agree with your GOP colleague in the senate tom tillis who as we mentioned tonight is calling on president trump to replace ptexeth saying on social media quote i have never witnessed a more inept management of the brave men and women of who serve our country of course you served your country as well do you agree with that i agree with the sentiments of senator tell us i hate to tell the president who he should hire and fire i don't know if it's really my role but i would say this i would not he would not be a my team i think he has he has not been a very good leader in many in many ways so i i agree with the sentiments the center to us and i wouldn't hire myself or he would not be a my team you of course served you reached the rank of brigadier general you you did four tours in the middle east so when you say see the

9:31de secretary defense disparaging a canadian cadet a teenager we should note taking part in a summer training camp and her instructor on social media posting a photo of two women you see them there at a moment of what's clearly great pride for them is that beneath the dignity of the office as canada's defense minister said it is it's low brow i think it's unprofessional and i'd like to think that our leadership representing us in the pentagon and in the white house we should be better than that and i thought it was a demeaning and uncalled for as you know there were questions about hegseth during confirmation hearings quite hard questions and yet republican senators confirmed if i'm sure should they have seen this coming i think so i told a few senators that i would vote would vote no and i was told by some and i'll keep them nameless down you're not under all the pressure that we're that we're under uh to vote for but i said i've been under a lot of other pressure and other bills i still vote no or vote my conscience i felt like he was trouble from

10:35the beginning and then right after he got you know uh confirmed then we had you know the single gate and what bothered me there he put classified information on an unclassified phone in an unclassified application gets caught and instead of just saying you know i was wrong i shouldn't have done it he gets mad at the reporter and i expect leaders to take responsibility when they fail and they make a mistake we're not none of us are perfect but when you fail you you'll know up to it so i was wrong and it won't happen again and i heard somebody that acted more like my teenagers when they're 30 and 40 now but when they were teenagers uh just a night and accused somebody else of being a fault i didn't like it i thought it was wrong are you one of those people who loves coffee the taste the smell of the whole ritual but the caffeine sends you straight into an anxiety spiral because well same i love trying new coffee shops and fun seasonal drinks but one full cup and suddenly my heart is sprinting and my brain it's running in five different directions at once that's why i love mud water same morning ritual coffee chai or matcha

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12:41worth it that's right up to 43% off with code mitis at m u d w t r dot com after your purchase ask how you found out about them please support our show let them know that mitis touch sent you we then also heard from former Republican congress member adam kinsinger here's what he had to say i've got to tell you it's been interesting to me because typically my time in the military i would say in the officer court was generally about 80% Republican 20% Democratic and we all got along that's that's shifting a lot and there are a lot of people that are seeing haggseth as a guy focused on these shallow things that don't matter um yeah fine you know maybe do a video or two occasionally where you're doing some pull ups or push ups to encourage good help among the truth but when that becomes the obsession and i'll say i also know bad commanders and bad commanders are the ones that always end up reverting back to focusing on things like did you shave close enough what does your uniform look like and they use the old adage of if we can't trust you get your uniform

13:44how can we trust you to fly eight million dollar plane always bad commanders that do that and to put on twitter you know kids kids that that have a desire to some level to serve in the Canadian military and shame them to an entire country is not just punching down it is the most beta male guy who is scared to death of his own shadow thing i've ever seen and nobody can defend that it's disgusting and he needs to apologize for it but Donald Trump says it's all roses all peachy Donald Trump says he says haggseth has done an amazing job this is what Donald Trump said yesterday he invited a lot of Republicans from swing districts for this midterm rally this was part of the midterm rally and here's what Donald Trump said yesterday in front of everybody play this clip trouble right Pete you did a good job last night in Iran by the way you knocked the hell out of them very good we're winning we're winning that one very big by the way in case you happen notice

14:44now here's the message from republican senator tollum tell us i think army secretary dan drisco for his leadership to our army and service to our country dan was the right man at the right moment to lead our soldiers and army civilians our understanding and assumptions of warfare are being challenged in places like ukraine and aron and dan understands the old way of doing business no longer applies he in general george began a transformative period of innovation and how we array our forces and equip our soldiers he challenged our legacy approach to manning and procurement most of all he cared deeply about the man and woman in our army formations and quickly earned their respect if we had a secretary of defense who maintained the same priorities and forward thinking he would be fighting to retain talented leaders like dan drisco and the many flag officers he has forced into retirement instead he is creating a leadership void at the top of our military ranks i served on the senate armed services for eight years and as chair ranking

15:49member of the personnel readiness subcommittee i have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men and women who serve our country he is intimidated by competence and retreats to ginning up culture wars instead of soberly these are all words that he picked ginning up culture wars instead of soberly attending to the vital work of our national defense and the health and well being of our fighting force ginning up soberly you get what he's saying there i urge the president to find a new leader at the pentagon who will retain and empower our military talent rather than diminish it dude you were the deciding vote but you allowed hegs it to get into power now you want a mulligan now you want an oopsies meanwhile cnn's reporting that in addition to hegsith now deleting all of the files on ciphernet because the sdob got out and it said that the top

16:54generals and admirals freaking hate the guy and think he's got loser plans hegsith's culture war fixation is disrupting the army progress top military sources are indeed telling cnn the following in the aftermath of the resignation of dan drisco army secretary multiple sources told cnn they believe defense secretary hegsith is damaging the army's efforts to adapt to the modern battlefield as he focuses on culture wars and prioritizing his own image of the american war fighter and pushes out leaders who don't align with his vision in submitting his resignation a source familiar said drisco brought up concerns with the administration surrounding the army transformation and readiness and hegsith blocking those efforts specifically by firing top generals who were responsible the generals like randy george army chief of staff randy george his wife patty were

17:55beloved in the united states military george was perhaps the most well respected decorated active duty service member for star general there was donna you got the guy rid of him cq brown junior drisco lennon's twos day evening would be his last day multiple sources told cnn they agree with the concerns drisco rays that hegsith is damaging the army's efforts to modernize and adapt to the 21st century battlefield environment where drone warfare is becoming increasingly important by firing or pushing out leaders who were spearheading those efforts it's critical that you have key leaders that understand technology and have the temperament to deal with industry and turn that into the formation a former senior army official said when you fire these guys for arbitrary reasons it creates confusions and devoid the army is enduring turbulence right now senior us military

18:58officials have privately acknowledged that they have come under what could be characterized as political pressure during hegsith's tenure particularly when he has prioritized culture war issues and voice concerns about the secretaries recent efforts to fire or push out uniformed and civilian leaders a defense official in europe told cnn that even though hegsith has spoken about technology reform and even previously released guidance on unmanned systems in practice they see a secretary in pentagon leadership more focused on culture issues than on modernization that brings me to the wall street journal article hegsith extends middle east deployments into 2027 escalating the strain on troops it talks about this open ended military strategy that Donald trump and hegsith want to have options in the war but the deployment of 19 warships air defense units fighter squadrons

20:02and power troopers across the region is straining service members and their families and creating a maintenance backlog that could take years to unwind the people said not to mention that our logistics in the middle east in bachrain and other areas have been destroyed by a ron that leaves the main logistical hub that's not even close to where our aircraft carriers are in the middle east in Diego Garcia that logistical breakdown is one of the reasons why our brave sailors and Marines aboard the aircraft carriers and in the neighboring ships the protective ships that are part of the a group why they're not getting basic food and nutrition and supplies and mail and other things that their family is sending them as well and then you saw the USS Abraham Lincoln the condition it was in a when it headed to Thailand it just arrived in Thailand no doubt you have Putin and G

21:05having their team and having lots of people in Thailand as our service members are going there I could assure you that that's probably what's going down there as well and you see the condition of our ship ain't looking too good this isn't I mean and you can say well man that's because it was deployed for 286 days I know it shouldn't be deployed for 286 days it should be going back to there there should be plans and there should be places where it goes to doc and then goes back but okay there you have it everybody let me know what you think it's subscribe let's get do 7 million subscribers order WTF America as well thanks before you go our book WTF America is available for pre-order now it's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back to pre-order scan the QR code or click the link in the description let's do this