Prominent Republican Says Hegseth Should Go

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Rep. Don Bacon, a prominent Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, became the first sitting GOP lawmaker Monday to suggest President Donald Trump should fire Pete Hegseth ...

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 10:33 AM | 16 COMMENTS | permalink

Is everyone in a signal chat with Pete hegseth but me?

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-- Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) April 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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In 2009, then-USAF Colonel Don Bacon appears to be genuinely happy speaking to his Commander-in-Chief: upload.wikimedia.org

USAF General Don Bacon (Ret.) knows incompetence when he sees it. As a Republican congressman, he was charitable in his public denouncement of SECDEF Pete Hogsbreath. With certainty General Bacon had other language in his head about this sloppy drunk MNARNG Captain in charge of the Pentagon.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-22 08:13 AM

Yhose cowards speak now but where were they when his appointment was supposed to be with the "advise and consent" of the Senate? Now his irresponsibility is a good reason to fire him but it wasn't exactly a well kept secret when Trump appointed him for the simple reason that he can kiss Trump's ass so well.

#2 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-22 11:47 AM

You know how to prove that sensitive information like the location of the strikes was not on these? Because if they were Democrats would have called the enemy and warned them.

#3 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-04-22 11:48 AM

What did Bacon have to say after Putin's demented bitch surrendered 3 American military bases to Russia?

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-22 11:55 AM

Hegseth Got Airstrike Details from Secure Military Channel for Signal Chats
www.newsweek.com

... Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is under mounting scrutiny after reports revealed he pulled highly sensitive information about U.S. airstrikes in Yemen from a secure military communications channel and shared it via Signal, an unsecured messaging app, with his wife, brother, lawyer, and others.

NBC News first reported that the data -- including launch and bomb drop times for U.S. warplanes targeting Houthi positions -- originated from U.S. Central Command's classified communications. A source familiar with a second Signal chat confirmed to the Associated Press that the same sensitive operational details were shared again, this time with an even wider circle, raising concerns over a potential security breach. ...

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-22 12:41 PM

Unpopular Pete Hegseth Forced To Drink Lunch Alone

theonion.com

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-22 12:44 PM

In Russia, Hegseth would miss a meeting due to a cold, and then be planted at Arlington 2 days later.

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-22 12:46 PM

Don Bacon?!? Prominent Republican?!? You mean 'Rep. Don Bacon, who recently announced his retirement from Congress, so as to avoid a well-funded primary race against some raving looney from Fremont, backed with $1 Gajillion from Leon Skum's Superduper PAC'. Right? That guy....

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2025-04-22 12:57 PM

Trump will just hire an equally incompetent and bigoted moron to replace Hegseth. ..Or maybe even worse.

#9 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-04-22 03:03 PM

#9: With Trumpf's selective criteria, he has plenty of candidates that can easily replace Pete Hogsbreath: media.npr.org

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-22 03:11 PM

So republicans don't want a sloppy secretary of defense because they're so concerned about national security, but they're cool with a russian puppet president.

#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-22 06:13 PM

I foresee Rep. Don Bacon being replaced by someone more loyal to Trump in upcoming elections.

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-22 06:34 PM

If Hegseth did this, he needs to go.

It's his job to know everyone in classified briefings. Why they couldnt use a SCIF is beyond me.

#13 | Posted by boaz at 2025-04-23 02:09 PM

"It's his job to know everyone in classified briefings. Why they couldnt use a SCIF is beyond me"

Every person we know was on the Signal chat, save one, had the pro-active responsibility to insist on a SCIF. Instead, their behavior proves that wasn't the first (or last) time they were negligent.

#14 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-23 02:30 PM

@#14 ... Instead, their behavior proves that wasn't the first (or last) time they were negligent. ...

Agreed.

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-23 02:37 PM

It's his job to know everyone in classified briefings. Why they couldnt use a SCIF is beyond me.
#13 | Posted by boaz

They did it on Signal
So there would be
NO OFFICIAL RECORD
Of what they said.

And Hegseth would send you to prison if you did that.

Connect the dots!

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 02:44 PM

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