Republican senators could have insisted on someone who was even minimally competent to run our military, but because of their spinelessness, we've now got a SecDef who can't resist texting top secret war plans. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court shows it doesn't trust the Trump administration, and judges on lower federal courts have stopped believing what its lawyers say. Plus, Joe Perticone joins from Rome to discuss the passing of Pope Francis. And the uncanny relevance of the American revolutionaries' grievances against King George. Bill Kristol and Joe Perticone joins Tim Miller. show notes Ryan Holiday on the Naval Academy canceling his speech (gift) List of grievances against King George in the Declaration of Independence
What does the podcast discuss about Pope Francis?
And within a single quarter, somebody that you hired that says that they're a friend of yours is already going to like think things are so bad that they need to go to the media and say, guys, we got to move on from this guy. Yeah. I just think that's pretty notable. These three months have felt like many years, but it's only been three months. No, totally.
And also that you've fired your chief of staff and deputy chief of staff, two people who work directly for you, not people who came up through other means, so to speak, and Trump appointed.
Yeah, former Lloyd Austin hangovers or whatever.
Yeah, or Trump appointees because they were buddies of his to be secretary of the army, that kind of thing. People who work directly, and the chief of staff, the deputy secretary of defense, who I believe was a heck Seth Crowley, who was imposed on Feinberg. These three all get fired.
They get anonymously smeared on the way out, apparently smeared on the way out of the door that they had problems with this leak investigation. They may have leaked classified or sensitive material. They deny it. And apparently, the guy Olyot reports that none of them has even had a lie detector test done.
Yeah, let me just read this little bit from him because I think it's important. This is from the Olyet article. He said that defense department officials working for Hexup tried to smear these fired aides anonymously to reporters claiming they were fired for leaking sensitive information.
Yet none of this is true, says Olyet, while the department said that it would conduct polygraph tests as part of the probe. Not one of the three has been given a lie detector test. In fact... At least one of them has told former colleagues that investigators advised him he was about to be cleared officially of any wrongdoing.
Heg says his team has developed a habit of spreading flat-out, easily debunked falsehoods anonymously about their colleague. Amazing.
Now, one thing you noticed and you stressed last night, and I would say I actually noticed too, and this is probably both from our backgrounds. You're so much more in campaigns and dealing with the media in that way and maybe a little more in government, I guess, but it's a couple of campaigns. Yes. Like, where did the story come from?
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