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The Bulwark / AB Stoddard: Trump's New Team Is a Gift to America's Enemies
The Bulwark / AB Stoddard - Trump’s New Team Is a Gift to America’s Enemies
Their incompetence will weaken the United States. Their instability will leave them vulnerable to being compromised.
A.B. Stoddard
Dec 10, 2024
ON SUNDAY, WHEN A GOP SENATOR was asked whether Pete Hegseth’s excessive drinking could imperil his ability to serve as secretary of defense the senator responded that members of Congress and people in the news media drink a lot too. He encouraged the media to “move on” from such questions.
A fellow Republican senator who had concerns about allegations of sexual assault facing Hegseth is now the target of an online mob demanding she consent to giving him one of the most important jobs on the planet.
The Heritage Foundation is going to spend $1 million to pressure Republican senators to approve Hegseth’s nomination. Trump ally Mike Davis, a former GOP Senate aide who is helping lead the online assault, told Playbook he will hire private detectives to investigate the past of any Republican senator who opposes Hegseth’s nomination.
This pressure campaign has materialized because Hegseth is both unqualified and unfit to lead the Pentagon. He is a blackmail magnet—a reckless man controlled by urges, from adultery to alcohol. And Donald Trump wants him anyway.
The choice of Hegseth, and the fight to force him on the Senate, epitomizes how the next Trump presidency will differ from the first. No longer are there even passing nods to substance or credentials in the battle for raw power.
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Their incompetence will weaken the United States. Their instability will leave them vulnerable to being compromised.
A.B. Stoddard
Dec 10, 2024
ON SUNDAY, WHEN A GOP SENATOR was asked whether Pete Hegseth’s excessive drinking could imperil his ability to serve as secretary of defense the senator responded that members of Congress and people in the news media drink a lot too. He encouraged the media to “move on” from such questions.
A fellow Republican senator who had concerns about allegations of sexual assault facing Hegseth is now the target of an online mob demanding she consent to giving him one of the most important jobs on the planet.
The Heritage Foundation is going to spend $1 million to pressure Republican senators to approve Hegseth’s nomination. Trump ally Mike Davis, a former GOP Senate aide who is helping lead the online assault, told Playbook he will hire private detectives to investigate the past of any Republican senator who opposes Hegseth’s nomination.
This pressure campaign has materialized because Hegseth is both unqualified and unfit to lead the Pentagon. He is a blackmail magnet—a reckless man controlled by urges, from adultery to alcohol. And Donald Trump wants him anyway.
The choice of Hegseth, and the fight to force him on the Senate, epitomizes how the next Trump presidency will differ from the first. No longer are there even passing nods to substance or credentials in the battle for raw power.
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