Hegseth rejects scrutiny of Trump's Joint Chiefs pick [View all]
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.
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These MFers are going to cause a lot of Americans to get killed.
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