Timestamps:
Timestamp: (3:22). President Trump is pushing a peace deal that completely favors Russia, while also hinting that he’s nearly done trying to bring about peace.
Timestamp: (21:32). Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has shared detailed military plans in a second Signal chat that included his wife and brother, and he appears to be in at least some danger of losing his job.
Timestamp: (29:18). A number of prominent Republicans, including several former members of the first Trump administration, have blasted the President for going after two Republicans within his first Administration.
Timestamp: (40:55). Let me end by sharing some spiritual encouragement.
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It would make perfect sense for Trump to force Rubio to be the messenger on this inability to create a peace deal.
Here’s a quick reminder that this won’t be the first time. This is what Trump said during the State of the Union this year.
The Atlantic: Trump’s Plan to Sell Out Ukraine to Russia
There’s been a lot happen since last Thursday’s podcast.
Here’s a quick rundown on the stories you need to know about, and which I’m tracking for this week’s edition.
The biggest news is Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared detailed military plans in a second Signal chat that included his wife and brother.
As CNN reports:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed plans about a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen on a second Signal group chat, this one on his personal phone and including his wife, lawyer and brother, three people familiar with the chat told CNN.
The chat was set up during Hegseth’s tumultuous confirmation hearing process as a way for his closest allies to strategize, two of the people familiar with the matter said. But Hegseth continued using the chat, which had more than a dozen people in it, to communicate after he was confirmed, the people said.
The revelation comes as some of Hegseth’s closest advisers have begun sounding the alarm about the secretary’s judgment, including his former press secretary, John Ullyot, and three former senior officials Hegseth fired last week — his top adviser Dan Caldwell, deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll, who served as chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense.
This impossible-to-imagine news has Hegseth on the hot seat. (Or possibly his time is already finished, according to NPR.)
Even before this terrible news broke, Hegseth was having former advisers and strong supporters of President Trump speak out publicly against him.
Check out what John Ullyot wrote in Politico. Ullyot is a former chief Pentagon spokesman and led communications at the National Security Council and the Department of Veterans Affairs in President Donald Trump’s first term.
Besides that, he was a senior communications adviser on Trump’s 2016 campaign.
But last week, Ullyot resigned from the Pentagon and wrote these blistering words in Politico:
The latest flashpoint (for Hegseth) is a near collapse inside the Pentagon’s top ranks. On Friday, Hegseth fired three of his most loyal senior staffers — senior adviser Dan Caldwell, deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, chief of staff to the deputy secretary of Defense. In the aftermath, Defense Department officials working for Hegseth tried to smear the aides anonymously to reporters, claiming they were fired for leaking sensitive information as part of an investigation ordered earlier this month.
Yet none of this is true. While the department said that it would conduct polygraph tests as part of the probe, not one of the three has been given a lie detector test. In fact, at least one of them has told former colleagues that investigators advised him he was about to be cleared officially of any wrongdoing. Unfortunately, Hegseth’s team has developed a habit of spreading flat-out, easily debunked falsehoods anonymously about their colleagues on their way out the door.
On Friday, POLITICO reported that Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, was leaving his role. Kasper had requested the investigation into the Pentagon leaks, which reportedly included military operational plans for the Panama Canal and a pause in the collection of intelligence for Ukraine.
It definitely looks like Hegseth is on his final legs with the Trump Administration, but he still sounds confident:
President Trump also claims — at least for now — that Hegseth is safe and doing a great job.
See here:
While it’s difficult to make a bold prediction, I would think that Hegseth is in trouble.
Hegseth even has the first (or probably many) Congressional Republicans coming out against him.
But the White House pushback is pretty strong.
And you could also argue a couple of things.
First, Trump doesn’t need the distraction with everything going on from Iran talks to strikes against the Houthis.
Secondly, the NPR story only has one source. But I balance out the single source with the fact that I put NPR pretty high on my list of media outlets that I trust. So, I’m skeptical they’d have written such a story without a strong source — especially given how Trump and the GOP are trying to defund them.)
What do you guys think?
UPDATE:
Link to full letter: An Open Letter Opposing White House Retaliatory Investigations
Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch’s meeting scandal is every Clinton scandal in miniature
Let me end by sharing some spiritual encouragement for you all out there.
As you know, if you want true peace, I believe you should look to God and the Bible for that — not a country, not a party, and certainly not a person. I believe that not only can God give you ever-lasting life, but that He can also give you peace in this life. God is like a good shepherd. He leads you by the still waters. He restores your soul. He guides you out of the death and destruction of sin. If you know nothing about the Bible, but want to test the waters and maybe try it out, check out my resource page here.
By the way, if you’re dealing with depression, PTSD, or thoughts of suicide, I have a link I’d like you to check out. In fact, it’s an entire page long. A pep talk, if you will, that I believe will help. I also have listed a hotline that you can call, whether you’re a service member or just a civilian. Here’s the page: PTSD.
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