Chaos At the Pentagon! The Latest on the Hegseth Signal Scandal

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DOD Chaos, Department of Defense Chaos, Pete, Hank, Seth,

I’m sorry. He’s screwing up. He’s screwing up, screwing up royally. His appearance on Fox and Friends yesterday was hysterical, quite frankly. at some point in time, you are the Secretary of Defense of the United States. People have the right, okay? You are a government.

employee, we pay your salary and they see various different things that things that make you go hmmm behind the scenes you have the right to be questioned and you should answer those questions whether you know I don’t care if it’s the left I don’t care if it’s right whatever it may be acknowledge the screw-ups and move on

you’re going on there and then you’re, you know, basically making it almost like you are some sort of pundit going on Sean Hannity’s program, talking about the Chardonnay sipping class and Donald Trump hired me to put us on a war fighting thing. That’s all well and good. That’s all well and good. And I appreciate you’re doing that. I think we all see the great success you’ve had as far as enlistment is concerned. Obviously the

the men and women in the middle, they seem to like you a lot. These are some good things that you can point out. It’s how you go about doing it, quite frankly. You had three advisors that were fired last week, and each and every one of them took to social media and they claimed ill treatment. Another advisor published an account.

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of what he called a month of total chaos at the Pentagon. Hegseth, this is multiple media sources, ran a chat on the Signal Messaging app that discussed a military strike and included his wife and other associates. Again, I am an SEC registered investment advisor.

and we have very, very strict rules, very strict rules, email, texts, you name it. Everything I do has to be archived and recorded. If I was discussing a client’s portfolio and his finances and I included my wife and some of my buddies,

I’d be a deep doo doo. Let’s just leave it at that. I’d be looking at major fines, probably my license suspended for a period of time. You are the secretary of defense, man. The hell is your wife doing on a freaking signal chat discussing military strikes? Are you shitting me?

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And again, obviously, you know, the Republicans circle the Wagnons, Tom Cotton coming out, that President Trump won’t be taking staffing advice from Politico. Yeah, we know that. Again, Hegseth, very, very defiant and dismissive of these concerns.

these concerns valid?

Hmm, just just throwing it out there. Again, the concerns in regards to Hegseth was whether or not he is able to handle the job. You’re talking, you’re talking the one of the biggest bureaucracies, the if not probably the biggest bureaucracy in the world. This is a pentagon of bureaucracy that hasn’t ever been able to pass an audit.

Sometimes you have to understand, like the old Clint Eastwood, man’s gotta know his limitations. Man’s gotta know his limitations. Pete Hegseth should be surrounding himself with people that know what the hell they’re doing. Again, you want a successful business owner, you want somebody that’s going to surround themselves with people that are brighter than themselves.

Listen, okay, I, you know, I try to do that at Markowski Investments. Okay. I’m trying to, I’m always looking to hire the best and the brightest that are out there. know, Hegseth has his values, already demonstrated his value in regards to recruitment going up and getting rid of some of the DEI woke crap that was in the military.

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Again, you want to change the culture and the bureaucracy at the Pentagon? Okay. But you need some help, man. You need, I’m sorry, you need some grown-ups in the room. You’ve never done anything like this in your entire life. It’s a big job. And again, who knows, you know, who knows, you know,

what his credibility looks like inside the Pentagon? I don’t know. And listen, I want to clean up the Pentagon. I want cuts to… I for the life of me don’t understand how they just got a bump in money to over a trillion dollars a year. That makes no sense to me. You can’t pass it on. Hey, Donald Trump says let’s shovel more money at this. Are you out your mind?

But we’re also out of our mind to not question the competence of somebody when, again, it hasn’t been that long.

and you’ve had multiple screw ups.

Get your act together. This is again to all of you MAGA types out there that don’t believe, that don’t believe in criticizing. What’s wrong with you?

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Well, yeah, how do you think you want success in life? You got to nitpick. You got to focus not just on the big things, the little things.

And every single day try to improve, try to come better. You don’t say, we’re just awesome. We can do no wrong. Trump, Trump, Trump, mega, mega, mega. That’s the biggest bunch of bull extramen ever. And that’s what’s gonna lead this presidency to a failed one.

Again, you love Trump, love Maggie, love all this stuff, you know what the best thing you can do? Start being honest.

Start being honest, not being disloyal. I say that one of the greatest forms of loyalty to someone is actually being able to call them out.

actually being able to call them out, call it like it is. Watchdogonwallstreet.com.