Hegseth rejects scrutiny of Trump's Joint Chiefs pick

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday refused to address whether the Trump administration’s choice to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is “underqualified” for the position, as concerns proliferated in Washington following last week’s firing of the military’s top officer and six other senior Pentagon leaders.

“I’m going to choose to reject your unqualified question,” Hegseth told a reporter at the Pentagon ahead of a meeting with the defense secretary’s counterpart from Saudi Arabia.

The question, posed by a reporter from the Reuters news agency, and Hegseth’s testy response reflected the tension sparked by President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday night that he had removed Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and nominated in Brown’s place a retired officer, Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, who possesses few of the qualifications detailed in U.S. law for the position.

The other senior officers who were abruptly dismissed on Friday include the head of the U.S. Navy, Adm. Lisa Franchetti; the No. 2 officer in the Air Force, Gen. James Slife; Hegseth’s senior military assistant, Lt. Gen. Jennifer Short; and the top military lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force. The head of the Coast Guard, Adm. Linda Fagan, was fired a day after Trump’s inauguration.

Read more: https://wapo.st/41zyX3B

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These MFers are going to cause a lot of Americans to get killed.

[red dog 1]

1. Here's the short tweet from the WaPo article

Link to tweet

[GP6971]

2. LTG Caine is a graduate of VMI (Virginia Military Institute).

Check it out.

[SunSeeker]

6. Nobody is disputing retired LTG Caine went to college. What is your point?

[jls4561]

3. Is little Lindsey going to go back and be a JAG again? He always mentions that service.

Well, I guess if it gets him out of the Senate…

[LudwigPastorius]

4. "I rejeck your reality and shubshtitute my own...hic!"

[Karasu]

5. Like the question even needs to be asked. Being unqualified seems to be a fucking requirement for these fascists.

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And of course, the answer he gave is exactly what I would expect from one of his most unqualified cabinet picks (which is really fucking saying something).