L&T Publisher Earl Watt
I like Pete Hegseth, but someone needs to strip all the apps off his phone, and he needs to be more selective about who he is allowing in on his conversations.
As Secretary of Defense, he will be privy to sensitive information, and not everyone in his circle wants him to succeed.
This is the problem with the way our government is being conducted and why it is important that this time around, Donald Trump gets serious about draining the swamp.
It’s completely necessary to have multiple voices in our government. It cannot function without diversity of thought.
That’s completely different than having people in your department intentionally working against you.
The first farce of an impeachment against Donald Trump was based on the exact same thing facing Trump.
Alexander Vindman was on a phone call between Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy during Trump’s first term in office.
During that phone call, Trump suggested that Zelenskyy look into Burisma and Hunter Biden, something Trump had said in front of the cameras multiple times.
But Vindman thought this to be an abuse of presidential power.
It wasn’t, but it was all the Democrats needed to hold a partisan vote that led to impeachment.
Vindman should have never been on that call, and his leak of what was a very benign suggestion, and one that has proven to be accurate about Hunter Biden and his foreign entanglements, was blown out of proportion.
That’s similar to what Secretary Hegseth is going through right now. He has to assume there is a mole in every conversation, and not a foreign bad actor, but an internal government bad actor, someone who does not support the direction the president wants to take the country and will actively work from within government to undermine Trump’s efforts to reshape the government as a more efficient and less partisan entity.
The marches we see on the streets are na indication of how the far left cannot accept the results of the last election, the only difference between what they are doing and what happened on Jan. 6 is location, not intent.
Trump is just at 100 days in office and protesters are calling for impeachment.
They would have done that if Trump cured cancer. They just hate the man.
Trump can be pompous, for sure, but he was duly elected president which shattered the left’s belief they could keep him form returning to the White House by using lawfare.
It didn’t work.
So they line the streets on weekends instead, much like any two-year-old throwing a tantrum. They didn’t get their way, and they believe the rest of America was just dead set wrong.
Many disillusioned voters who didn’t get their way act stunned by tariffs despite the fact that Trump campaigned on using tariffs to correct trade imbalances. They act stunned about shutting down the U.S. Department of Education despite the fact Trump campaigned on shutting it down.
They watch in horror as Trump works to cut the waste, fraud and abuse out of government even though every president in the modern era has vowed to accomplish the same goal. They just never did anything about it after getting elected.
Trump is.
Over and over they believe that half of America were duped by voting for Trump and what he is now doing.
We weren’t. Trump is doing exactly what the voters wanted him to do.
And another action is returning government to being an unbiased servant of the people.
Why do they believe they are so right and everyone else is so wrong?
Because Washington, D.C. voted 90 percent for Kamala Harris and only 6 percent for Trump. Those percentage can also be reflected in almost every legacy media newsroom across the nation. And that percentage can also be reflected in those working in the federal government.
It is completely skewed and does not represent the political split of the American people.
If our government is a reflection of us, then half of the workers in government should reflect conservative values. Half of all journalists should reflect conservative values.
They don’t, and it’s not even close.
Which takes us back to the challenges Hegseth is facing.
The Pentagon powers that be do not reflect the balanced split in America, either. It is skewed to the far left, and they will undermine Hegseth at every turn.
Combat readiness is second to proper pronoun usage, according to the brass running the show.
And like other bureaucrats running our government, they believe they are in charge, not the elected officials and certainly not the secretaries appointed by a Republican president.
This was Trump’s biggest failure in his first term.
But he cannot be re-elected, and he will pay the political price of shrinking the size of government while at the same time bringing balance back to it.
We cannot function as a nation with lopsided leadership in government agencies, and only receiving 6 percent of the vote in D.C. is evidence that the bias runs deep.
This may be our only shot at getting government in check.
