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national security, national security team

Sen. Hothead joins Trump team

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Well now, Donald Trump has just fired one of the most incompetent members of our national security team and replaced her with a fellow who once challenged a Senate committee witness to a fistfight in the middle of a hearing.

I don’t know about you, but I do not feel one little bit safer now than before.

Kristi Noem made a hash of our Homeland Security Department with her handling of the ICE goons she loosed on the streets of our cities. She spent $200 million of our tax money to produce glam-shot ads featuring her and touting the successes she insisted occurred during Trump’s administration.

We started a war with Iran, several American warriors died right away, and Noem couldn’t bring herself to offer a word of condolence to the survivors of the soldiers who died.

Trump cut her loose. Fine. Good bye and good riddance!

Up steps Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin to become the Homeland Security secretary. He’s a Trump loyalist through and through. No surprise there, given that’s what Trump wants in Cabinet nominees. What is astounding to me is that Trump would select a guy who about a year ago had to be called down by a committee chairman for wanting to settle a dispute with a witness with his fists.

Sen. Hothead actually stood up and challenged the witness right there in front of the whole world!

This is the guy whom Trump has chosen to lead our homeland security defense team? Trump said he always intends to hire “the best people” to advise him. Markwayne Mullin, to my eyes, appears to be one of the worst.

International news, military news

Chaos reigns at DHS

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All righty, kids, here is what I understand has happened in the war with Iran … and make no mistake, we are at war with a nation of 90-plus million individuals who are governed by a group who made “Death to America” a household phrase in the Middle East nation.

Donald Trump sends in air power off the deck of two nuclear-powered air craft carriers. U.S. and Israeli pilots bomb the crap out of Iranian command and control centers. Iran strikes back and already we have service personnel listed as killed in action.

The POTUS trots out his incompetent homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to lie to us about motives for going to war. Noem spends more time fighting with reporters than answering their questions. Noem is supposedly our go-to Cabinet official, correct?

Then Trump fires Noem. He brings in Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Mullen’s got to go from zero to 150 in an instant.

We have witnessed a prescription for chaos … at precisely the worst time, while we have launched a war with a regional power such as Iran.

I support the removal of Kristi Noem as DHS secretary. She doesn’t know what she’s doing. The brutal truth, though, is this: There could no “good time” to cut her loose. Trump started this war with no clear goal in mind, no exit strategy if we ever achieve that unknown goal, and little support from Americans who are sending their young treasure into battle.

God help us … please!

national news, national security

Axe to fall on Cabinet?

Donald Trump reportedly is sharpening the axe he will use to chop possibly as many as three Cabinet members off his team … or so some media are reporting.

One of them is FBI Director Kash Patel, who shouldn’t be in office in the first place. Dude has zero FBI field experience. Another might be Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who’s fallen out of disfavor with Trump policy chieftain Stephen Miller for failing to implement money appropriated from the Big Ugly Bill approved by Congress. Then we have Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, another Cabinet pick far and away out of his league who’s been fingered in a growing scandal over whether he committed war crimes in ordering the deaths of survivors of a missile strike on alleged drug boats off the Venezuela coast.

Trump is standing with all of ’em. But you know that goes … right? He’ll say he’s with them until he isn’t.

As for whether he could replace any of them with seasoned professionals who know what they’re doing, that’s another matter altogether. I am not hopeful any of this is going to end well for the nation Trump was elected to lead.