Political analysts and observers were aghast on Monday after a new report revealed that President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary has reached a new "height of criminality." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's stockbroker looked into purchasing a defense-related fund ahead of the Trump administration l...
Trump knows that when he orders the military to fire on American citizens, Hegseth will enthusiastically pull that trigger. He would launch a nuclear weapon if Trump wanted him to. That kind of unquestioning psychopathic loyalty is incredibly valuable.
Hegseth isn’t going anywhere, he’s one of Trump’s core players, like Bondi or PeeWee Himmler.
You’re absolutely right, he’s literally just their trigger happy hype man. He’s there to act as a motivational figurehead who’s willing to accept and promote whatever results in the most military action being taken at Trump’s request. Also “trigger happy hype man” - that would actually be a cool name for a song or album come to think of it…
Even if that weren’t true, the idea that this type of open corruption is grounds for firing in a Trump admin is laughable. Trump himself is far more corrupt, and hegseth being corrupt just goes further to ensure his loyalty. He can always have Bondi do a selective prosecution of this should he step out of line.
It’s basically kompromat that only Trump (through control of the DOJ through Bondi) can use.
Don’t forget Bondi wasn’t even their first choice. Bondi is just who they used because they couldn’t get Matt Gaetz the position. Someone he could blackmail into doing anything because they already have the evidence that he trafficked and raped a minor. Gaetz assistant pled guilty and is in prison with a shortened sentence (14 years) with the agreement he would testify against Gaetz. Both Florida and the U.S. put the files in a drawer and essentially labeled it blackmail and let him walk free until they need to use it against him. He wasn’t found not guilty, wasn’t even tried, they just put them in a corner and said… Maybe later.
That is an entirely accurate assessment of the situation, with one small clarification:
Joel Greenberg wasn’t his assistant, he could be better described as a wingman/ concierge/ pimp, sort of a Florida Trailer Trash analogy to Epstein/Trump.
Greenberg was the Seminole County Tax Collector, an elected position, that oversees tax collections, obviously, but also the DMV, and Elections. So it’s a powerful position, with a lot of room for corruption.
One of the things that they did was take underage girls into the DMV after hours, and let them root through barrels of old licenses, looking for ones that resembled themselves close enough that they could use them as fake IDs.