Military analyst busts Hegseth over 'convenient' Los Angeles military threat

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's inflammatory social media post that he is ready and willing to send Marines into Los Angeles to confront protesters is nothing more than a ploy to curry favor with Donald Trump.

That is the opinion of long-time military analyst Max Boot who pointed out that Hegseth's tenure at the Pentagon has been disastrous and the protests in LA against ICE agents storming businesses while looking for immigrants handed the former Fox News personality a chance to get out of the Trump administration doghouse.

On Sunday, MSNBC "The Weekend" co-host Elise Jordan promoted her guest, "It really is something that Pete Hegseth jumped from National Guard to Marines at Camp Pendleton, right?"

"This is not what you want in a situation like this, a trigger-happy secretary of defense," Boot began. "Now, you know, I think to, you know, one thing you can say in favor of the Trump administration is I don't think that they are looking for wars overseas. They're not necessarily looking to involve U.S forces in conflict with Iran or other bad actors, but it does seem like they are looking for wars at home. They're looking for confrontations at home."

"And, you know, this is very convenient for somebody like Pete Hegseth, who's had a bad first few months on the job where, you know, he was involved in the Signalgate scandal, where he was texting us attack plans to the editor of The Atlantic, as well as to a lot of his colleagues in the government and on an unsecured app," he pointed out.

"He's had massive turmoil in the secretary of defense office, people coming and going. He's been focused on culture wars, not on really preparing America for actual wars against actual adversaries. And from what we read, he has not been in good odor in the White House, that President Trump has not been happy with a lot of the stuff that he's doing, including when he wanted to give Elon Musk access to U.S. war plans involving China."

"So this is an opportunity for him to get in Trump's good graces to, you know, be on the same page as the White House and say, 'Yeah, you're sending a National Guard. I'm going to send in Marines.' It's completely inappropriate it's very, very dangerous because you should not be having active-duty U.S. troops involved in missions on U.S. soil, barring some catastrophe, which has not happened here."

"And I think this is the key point you're talking about dozens or hundreds of demonstrators," he told the MSNBC host. "There is nothing that remotely would justify the deployment of active duty Marines to Los Angeles."

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