Abcarian: Pete Hegseth says he knew what he was doing. In that case, he should resign
Source: Los Angeles Times
Abcarian: Pete Hegseth says he knew what he was doing. In that case, he should resign
Robin Abcarian
Sun, March 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM EDT 4 min read
The Trump administration officials who royally screwed up with their Signal group chat about combat plans, or your lyin’ eyes?
“There was no classified information as I understand it,” said President Trump on Tuesday, a day after the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg reported that he’d been accidentally added to a group chat on the messaging app Signal in which the country’s top national security officials were blabbing about imminent plans to drop bombs on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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The Trump administration, with its irrational destruction of critical services and institutions, with its incompetence and willful ignorance, is playing Jenga with our lives and American democracy. Remove a few more pieces of what holds this country together — the social safety net, the ability of our courts to protect us from tyrannical overreach, the facts about current events and U.S. history — and it’s all going to come crashing down. Maybe it already has.
“I know exactly what I’m doing,” said Hegseth, the Fox News weekend host elevated by the president to one of the most important jobs in the world because, it's been suggested, he looks good on TV. In the short time the former National Guard infantryman has been the face of the mighty United States military, he has consistently shown he does not, in fact, know what he is doing.
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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/abcarian-pete-hegseth-says-knew-100801431.html
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