Joe Perticone
speaker
314 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 20 May
Joe Perticone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, OK, so it's a it's a smart strategy, I guess.
I mean, you can keep delaying more military action if you constantly have the secretary of defense on the campaign trail for you.
You know, not a bad idea for other candidates.
But, you know, like you can tell that Hegseth wasn't hired to be a secretary of defense.
He was hired to be a yapper, which is why he was a TV show host going to be secretary of defense.
That's a rare move.
Usually top generals then go become pundits.
But he.
You know, clearly they have their priorities in order, which is sticking it to people who break with them, who don't do what they say.
And that's far more important than a war that is not working out for them, either politically or just strategically.
So they had been, they Trump world have been opposed to Massey for years, but it really took on a new life after the Epstein files stuff.
The fact that he just did not give up and he kept hammering at it and he didn't accept when Mike Johnson said, well, actually the oversight committee is going to do their own thing.
He said very clearly that,
anything that like James Comer is doing is actually being managed by the White House.
So it's not clear.
And it's a broken promise and you have to get it released.
And the fact that he didn't give up and he was successful and put all of these Republicans, the exception of one, Clay Higgins, into a bind in which they all voted to release the files, almost unanimous, that really pissed him off because it didn't just, you know, go against what the president wanted to do.
It didn't just like
give him a political wound.
It also showed that with enough will and enough coalition building, like Thorne Boebert and Ro Khanna and the entirety of House Democrats, that's a weird coalition of people.
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