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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

One of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's right-hand men was put out to pasture Tuesday after being accused of leaking.

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REUTERS: "One of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense."

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-- The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) April 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM

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The pickled rapist who drunk-texts war plan gets to stay.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-15 08:50 PM | Reply

I think Trump's beating his first administration's pace for early departures. More hilarity to ensue.

#2 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-04-15 09:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Second Staffer Booted From Pete Hegseth's Pentagon Amid Probe Into Leaks

www.thedailybeast.com

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-16 09:22 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

you two and the others to follow are characters....real characters

--like Karl Childers.

how dare this man toss out a snitch from his department

now leftist terrorists and con artist are gonna have to find

other of those heralded mysterious fantastical " anonymous

sources"to create your ------- lies.

#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-16 10:58 AM | Reply

------------- is the extra-chromosomal --------- who gets his info from Laura Loomer. Lol

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-16 11:08 AM | Reply

how dare this man toss out a snitch from his department
#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan

I'm fine with that.

How come you don't want the people who leaked out battle plans to get the same treatment?

#6 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-16 12:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

A scapegoat.

Just as I predicted. Trump would be nothing if not redundant.

Unless this scapegoat has been given a life or death threat to keep his mouth shut, he's going to be in high demand on the Sunday talk shows. Otherwise, I hope he writes a lot "insider" tell-all op-eds.

#7 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-04-16 01:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Make all your exits a "Sudden Departure" with Leakies, guaranteed to expose the juciest and moistest leaks of all!

#8 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-04-16 02:02 PM | Reply

lol there's nothing that shrimptacodips^*% won't swallow with a smile from these people.

#9 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-16 04:01 PM | Reply

And that's saying a lot, coming from the original SaltyDog.

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-04-16 06:01 PM | Reply

The ----- lush suspends aide number three.

www.washingtonpost.com

#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-16 06:07 PM | Reply

Fat Donnie Loser leaks through the back of his pants.

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-16 07:22 PM | Reply

Stinky Pete needs some new drinking buddies. I'll wager his old pals at Faux News are ducking and diving so as to not be roped into this new hell hole at the Pentagon. Pete needs someone new to blame for the beer farts let loose at meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...

#13 | Posted by catdog at 2025-04-16 08:02 PM | Reply

REIN

"The ----- lush suspends aide number three."

They're lucky to get out of this administration early. Trump's criminal activity is going to get worse. Scapegoats could actually end up suffering severe consequences (i.e. Scooter Libby) if Trump and his goons railroads them into the blame-game to save themself.

#14 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-04-16 10:20 PM | Reply

@#14 ... They're lucky to get out of this administration early. Trump's criminal activity is going to get worse. Scapegoats could actually end up suffering severe consequences ...

Has Pres Trump ever thrown anyone of his prior administration under the bus?

Oh wait...

OpEd: Donald Trump just threw his entire White House staff under the bus (2017)
www.cnn.com

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That thud you heard was Donald Trump driving the bus over his White House staff.

In an interview with NBC's Lester Holt Thursday night, the President directly contradicted the reasoning his staff -- as well as Vice President Mike Pence -- had laid out for his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey.

"I was going to fire Comey -- my decision," Trump told Holt. "There is no good time to do it, by the way. I was going to fire regardless of recommendation."

That assertion came fewer than 18 hours after Pence was on Capitol Hill telling a totally different story. "The President took strong and decisive leadership here to put the safety and the security of the American people first by accepting the recommendation of the deputy attorney general to remove Director Comey as the head of the FBI," Pence said Wednesday.

And he was far from the only one singing from that songbook -- which Trump promptly ripped up in his interview with Holt.

"The President was presented with a pretty clear and direct and very strong recommendation by deputy Attorney General (Rod Rosenstein)," said White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. "The deputy made the recommendation, the president made a swift and decisive action and let Comey go."

Then there was this from White House counselor Kellyanne Conway: "He acted decisively today, he took the recommendation of his Deputy Attorney General ... . I would really ask everyone tonight to read Mr. Rosenstein's memo. This is what he presented to the Attorney General, he presented to the President and the President took decisive action."

There is no amount of spin available in the world that would somehow make what Trump said Thursday night jibe with what his aides and his vice president said earlier in the week. It's simply not possible.

C-a-t doesn't spell dog. ...



#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-16 10:56 PM | Reply

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