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BREAKING: Republican Congressman Don Bacon breaks ranks with Donald Trump and publicly calls for the firing of historically incompetent MAGA Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
This trickle could soon turn into a flood…
“The military should always pride itself on operational security. If the reports are true, the Secretary of Defense has failed at operational security, and that is unacceptable,” Bacon told Axios.
“If a Democrat did this, we’d be demanding a scalp. I don’t like hypocrisy. We should be Americans first when it comes to security,” Bacon, who is the chair of the House Armed Services subcommittee, added.
Over the weekend, several top DoD officials departed from their positions amidst reports of leaks. They then publicly criticized the manner in which they were let go.
The problem was then dramatically compounded when John Ullyot — the chief Pentagon spokesman who resigned last week — penned a brutal editorial criticizing his former boss, describing a “month of total Chaos at the Pentagon.”
He pointed to “leaks of sensitive operational plans to mass firings” and broad “dysfunction” and predicted that Hegseth will soon be fired from his role.
These new scandals come in the wake of the revelation that the SignalGate scandal was worse than previously believed and that Hegseth shared sensitive information about the Yemen strikes in an additional group chat that included his wife, brother, and attorney.