Trump sycophant Pam Bondi is out, her reputation solidified as a toady, and her legal career wrecked. Sycophant Todd Blanche is now in, at least temporarily.
Former Fox News Commentator, current Secretary of Defense, right wing Evangelical Protestant radical Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of the Army Daniel P. Driscoll. I have no reason to believe that Driscoll is a shining beacon of light in the Trump Administration, but it's getting increasingly clear he doesn't get along with Hegseth and its becoming additionally clear the Army thinks the war against Iran is a mistake.
But that's not what we refer to.
Gen. Randy George, who is 61 years of age and highly decorated. 62 is the current Army retirement age, up from 60 when I was a Guardsman, and it's 64 for general officers.
Yesterday, the full-scale war between the Secretary of the Army Daniel P. Driscoll and the Secretary of Defense burst into the open with Hegseth firing Secretary of the Army loyalist and remaining solid generals including Army chief of staff, Gen. Randy George. Chief of chaplains, Maj. Gen. William Green, and the commanding general of Army Transformation and Training Command, David Hodne were also fired.
Gen. Hodne, age 56. Like George, he has the Combat Infantryman's Badge and an Air Assault Badge, as well as a master jump badge.
The reason for Hegseth's discontent is not openly known, although he's been at war with Driscoll for some time, but senior officers have been reportedly upset with Hegseth due to his monkeying with the promotion list. Recently two black and two female officers were reported removed from the list and there were comments that Trump would not wish to stand next to a black female officer.
Maj. Gen. William Green. It's harder to learn information about Green, but he served originally as an enlisted artilleryman and based on what data there is, he would be about 60.
If that is the reason, it's worse than the other potential reason, which is disagreement over the direction of the war. Notably, Maj. Gen. Green is also black, and so far I've seen no reason why he was removed. In light of Hegseth's membership in an Evangelical church that holds views that the overwhelming majority of Christians do not, there could certainly be other reaons.
Hegseth, as is well known, has consistently been a sort of reactionary force in the military, but since the war started he's been a zealot for a sort of Evangelical Protestant crusade. There's some evidence he may have helped talk Trump into the war, which he may see in that light.
He's also had consistent disputes with some of the military brass, while also taking on interesting social issue matters. For example, he just determined to prohibit chaplains from wearing their insignia of rank.
Rumor has it that Driscoll is targeted for firing. My guess is that Driscoll and Hegseth are both targets, with it being the case that one of them or the other will get the boot. Trump can't be happy with Hegseth, who likely promised a quick and easy victory which isn't happening and isn't going to.
But it doesn't end there. It's also being reliably reported that the increasingly desperate Trump may be considering firing Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Intelligence Chief Tulsi Gabbard and FBI Director Kash Patel. I don't know anything about Chavez-DeRemer, but all the rest of these people should be fired.
Of course, Trump should be fried as he's bat shit crazy. With all of these people in the crosshairs, maybe they have some incentive to invoke the 25th Amendment.
If any of these firings are going to happen, they'll happen quickly.
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