Former Pentagon official warns department's dysfunction could topple Hegseth

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

04/20/2025 07:15 PM EDT


The Pentagon is in “total chaos” and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unlikely to remain in his role, according to its former top spokesperson, who painted a scene of dysfunction, backstabbing and continuous missteps at the highest levels of the department.

“The building is in disarray under Hegseth’s leadership,” John Ullyot wrote Sunday in a POLITICO Magazine opinion piece. “The dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president — who deserves better from his senior leadership.”

Ullyot, who resigned from the Pentagon last week, described a department in collapse. He accused Hegseth’s team of “falsehoods” about why three top officials were fired last week, saying they hadn’t leaked sensitive information to the media. He chastised Pentagon officials for how they handled revelations that Hegseth shared sensitive military information in a Signal chat, and he pointed to other leaks that caused embarrassment to the administration.

The remarkable accusations by a former official — who left only two days ago and insists he still supports the Trump administration’s national security policies — underscores the infighting and upheaval that has turned increasingly public in recent weeks.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/20/ullyot-pentagon-hegseth-chaos-00300695

[surfered]

1. Throw in a little sexual harassment and it sounds just like where he used to work (Fox).

[Irish_Dem]

2. Why does Trump want a Pentagon in chaos?

How does it benefit him?

[underpants]

4. He sees this as his big bold unsettling move like Patel

He does think much beyond the superficial

[Irish_Dem]

5. His minders think beyond superficial.

It is a deliberate attempt to damage the US military and our national security.

[PatSeg]

17. Sounds like a Putin dream come true

[Lonestarblue]

7. He wants the fear that comes with creating chaos and uncertainty.

Every dictator needs the military behind him. Then when Trump declares himself president for life, the military will do nothing.

Trump wants military leaders less like General Milley, who clearly reiterated loyalty to the Constitution instead of a person, and more like Hegseth who are loyal only to Trump and are willing to use military power to support his actions no matter what they are. By firing top leaders, Trump has created chaos and the fear that anyone who speaks out is next. He thrives on threats and gets people to do what he wants for fear of retribution.

[MLAA]

8. It makes Putin happy, which makes TSF happy.

[Martin Eden]

9. It benefits Putin

As does so much this POtuS has done.

[JT45242]

12. It benefits Putin ...that is all that matters

Throw in debts to Bone saw and a few others and that explains the chaos.

[JadedButHopeful]

14. Doesn't benefit Trump...

Benefits the Russians and Chinese, who helped install Trump as president.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Trump does nothing unless it benefits him personally in some way.

He was installed into office by our enemies, and it benefits them.
He owes them and wants more from them as well.

[Escurumbele]

16. trump is just following Putin's orders, and Putin does need chaos everywhere in the USA, theat is why

rataMusktui has been so busy destroying everything in his path.

[mwb970]

3. A drunken, womanizing weekend substitute host on Fox "News" is appointed Defense Secretary.

He has never run or managed anything in his life, so let's put him in charge of millions of people in the Defense Department. What could possibly go wrong?

And who will trump choose next for the job? That shrieking Fox "News" shrew Pirro may be available. She seems to be drunk most of the time.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. "And who will trump choose next for the job?"

Someone "qualified" for MAGats - this guy - Robert O'Neill

Aside from multiple arrests/convictions for DUI and being a huge RW loon blowhard whose claim to fame is bragging about supposedly being the one who killed Bin Laden, he had this doozy -

Navy SEAL Says Group Of Male Gen Z Harris Voters Would Be His 'Concubines'

By David Moye
Nov 4, 2024, 08:00 PM EST

(snip)

Harry Sisson, a content creator working to get other young voters to support the vice president, posted that he and his peers were trying to get more Harris supporters to the polls. “We’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris!” Sisson wrote.

Although most reasonable people would see the post as basic get-out-the-vote boosterism common during the last weekend before a presidential election, it really seemed to set O’Neill off. He was so offended by the (checks notes) five college-age males happy they voted for Harris that he suggested the young men could be his sex slaves in a slightly different universe.

“You’re not men. You’re boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines,” he wrote.

(snip)

Definitely a "Manly man™".

[Glaisne]

10. Department in collapse

Isn't that the plan? Collapse of the entire government. Isn't that what MAGA wants?

[AllyCat]

11. There's no dysfunction:

He’s working for Putin

[johnnyplankton]

13. Wow! Who'd of thunk putting a drunk in charge of the world's most powerful military would not go well?

[usonian]

18. It's jos JOB to create dysfunction. Without a 9/11 size disaster, no cause to invoke martial law.

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Q.E.D.

Economy, market crashing, gaping holes in computer security, breakdown of social systems, point to that goal.

Defense is PREOCCUPIED with fighting immigrants and DEI.

I'm expecting a devastating computer hack of the entire US infrastructure, and perhaps a missile attack by Russian "tourist" submarines in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1



Prove me wrong.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20215296

[louis-t]

19. No, he doesn't "deserve better".

He chose this path. He chooses who he thinks "looks good on tv", not who will do the best job. He obviously doesn't care about the leaks, the infighting, the backstabbing, the boneheaded mistakes. He will choose someone just as unqualified should he decide to fire Hegseth and he will expect a different outcome. The true definition of insanity.

[shotten99]

20. If only we had known that he was unreliable somehow...

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