Summary
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has told Donald Trump that Pete Hegseth likely has enough votes to be confirmed as Defense Secretary, despite controversy over past sexual misconduct allegations, a financial settlement, and concerns about his leadership and alcohol use.
Hegseth’s confirmation hearing is set for Jan. 14, with Senate Republicans aiming to expedite key national security confirmations before Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
Other high-profile hearings, including for Marco Rubio (State), Pam Bondi (Attorney General), and Tulsi Gabbard (DNI), are tentatively scheduled for the same week amidst ongoing bipartisan negotiations.
This guy sucks, but IMHO, more energy should be spent on tanking people like Patel and RFK. They’re an even bigger threat to American citizens.
They would need someone exactly like Hegseth when they go through with their plan to purge generals that would uphold the constitution and promote trump loyalists to more positions of power in the military. I’m sure there are some on Lemmy that assumes all military members are the same and pro-trump. That isn’t true. There were generals going around and talking to their counterparts to make sure the military would not come if Trump called during 1/6.
This will make it so next time they will have more backing.
Add Tulsi Gabbard who is either the most clueless useful idiot out there or (more likely) clearly working for Russia.
I think they’re all bad enough to fundamentally and permanently damage democracy in the US, so it’s good not to “prioritize” in this case. Hegseth can enable Trump to use our actual armed forces to enforce whatever whim he has, which is about as scary as you can get. They all need to be prevented from taking their roles.