I’ve Been With Trump Since 2016. Hegseth Should Resign.
In Trump’s second term, I volunteered to help Hegseth stand up his press office by serving him for a short time as a senior adviser and spokesperson.
Key points
- But you might want someone with a law degree.” Hegseth, a former Fox News weekend co-host and major in the Minnesota National Guard who had never run a large organization, should have known that he was not qualified to lead the largest department in the federal government.
- Whether or not Democrats impeach him next year, they will have the gavels and the subpoena power, and every hearing on Hegseth will be a week the White House spends doing something other than advancing its agenda.
- pilots.” In September 2025, a follow-up, or “double tap,” strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean killed two survivors clinging to the wreckage, after which The Washington Post reported that Hegseth had given a verbal order to….
I first worked for Trump on his 2016 campaign in Trump Tower.
“All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.” The loud rebuke of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his entourage by an Army sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day was the latest embarrassment of the defense chief’s tenure.
Additional details
- [ Read: Democrats are ready to run Hegseth ‘out of town’ ] He has pushed out top military leaders and two of the three service secretaries the president appointed, Dan Driscoll and John Phelan.
- He would serve President Trump best by stepping down before Democrats use him to help jam up the president’s agenda during Trump’s final two years in office.
- As I write in my new memoir of my years working for Trump, loyalty in his second term has usually been measured by how loudly an appointee defends him.
- The 211–204 vote to shelve an impeachment resolution this week, with 11 Democrats not present, was a reprieve for Hegseth, not a vindication.
- He planned to livestream the firing-squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter until Trump called off the macabre spectacle.
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