Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s inability to quell the firestorm of accusations of war crimes has severely crippled his leadership at the Pentagon and is leading to resignations by Defense Department officials who don’t want to be caught up in the chaos he is creating.
Appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Atlantic journalist Nancy Youssef reported that the embattled Hegseth is not in “imminent danger” of being fired by Donald Trump — who is reportedly getting tired of the Hegseth drama — but he is seeing an exodus among military officials.
She told co-host Willie Geist, “Last week was a particularly bad week for the secretary in addition to questions about this double-tap strike, questions about the mission writ large and the impact it actually has on drug trafficking in the United States.”
“He was also sued by one of the victims of these strikes, by the family of this man, who said he was not a drug trafficker but a fisherman. He was sued by the New York Times,“ she added.
“He has faced a number of questions about his leadership, sort of rooted in questions about his judgment. You are seeing a lot of questions about his ability to conduct the job,” she explained. “Within the Pentagon, it's leading to, in some cases, resignations from people who are fearful that they will be in the position that Admiral Bradley was in, where they carry out an order and have to then carry the burden of that decision in a political climate and a command climate that secretary himself has created.”
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