Firings
Well, top of the news as I write this Pete Hegseth has asked the Army Chief of Staff, GEN Randy George, to step down.
Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement that George “will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately. The Department of War is grateful for General George’s decades of service to our nation. We wish him well in his retirement.”
A senior Defense Department official told CBS News, “We are grateful for his service, but it was time for a leadership change in the Army.”
This is one of those “it was only a mater of time” situations.
George previously served as the senior military assistant to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin from 2021 to 2022, during the Biden administration, after decades of service. CBS News
Think any top person anointed by the Biden administration is probably looking over their shoulder at this point. If they aren’t – well, they need to. This is not an administration that forgives any past associations.
The current vice chief of staff of the Army, Gen. Christopher LaNeve, who was formerly Hegseth’s military aide, will be acting Army chief of staff.
And in bigger news, another top Trump appointee, Attorney General Pam Bondi, has been pointed to the exit and told to hit the bricks.
The departure followed months of scrutiny over the Justice Department’s handling of files related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation and failed efforts to meet Trump’s unwavering demands for criminal cases against his adversaries.AP
Yeah, when you say “the file is on my desk” and later say “what file?” your credibility takes a hit. One of those statements has to be a lie, and a good chunk of the country took the inconsistency as evidence of Trump’s guilt – and we all know he does not like to be embarrassed.
She was also castigated for being too slow to prosecute James Comey, Letitia James, and others who were perceived to be on Trump’s “enemies list” (to steal a term from the late Richard Nixon.) Too, many of the DOJ prosecutions came to a halt when judges found reasons to reject their validity, and true Trump supporters feel she should have made the prosecutions bullet-proof.
Me, I differ from some of you – I thought she was a lying weasel when she was selected and said so. We all know one of my hot buttons is the 2nd Amendment, and she ‘lied straight-faced while I cried’ about her views on that. (Credit to Rod Stewart for that line.) Like a true politician, she swore she was on our side but when push came to shove, her DOJ has been no more supportive than Biden’s. Lip service, such as when the Big Beautiful Bill zeroed the tax on NFA items, and people sued to have the NFA tax bill nullified (what good is a $0 tax?) her f0lks defended the NFA, leaving us vulnerable to the next load of Democrats restoring or even raising the tax. Good riddance, Pam. Hopefully her successor will understand basic, simple English phrases. Let’s start with “shall not be infringed.”
