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PREDICTION: THE MOST SECURE CABINET POSITION

The OTHER 98%

THE US SECRETARY OF DEFENSE - PETE HEGSETH:

• Wrote a book literally called 'American Crusade' — calling for a modern-day holy war against Muslims.

• Wrote that Islam 'is not a religion of peace, and it never has been.'

• Was reported to have repeatedly chanted 'Kill All Muslims!' while drunk at a veterans' event in 2015.

• Has a tattoo of the Jerusalem Cross on his chest — a symbol of the Crusades, when European armies invaded the Middle East to conquer Jerusalem from Muslims

• Has 'Deus Vult' tattooed on his arm — 'God Wills It' — the battle cry of the First Crusade in 1095

• Just got a new tattoo reading 'كافر' (Kafir) in Arabic — a deliberate provocation against 2 billion Muslims, from the man commanding the most powerful military on earth

• Said in Jerusalem in 2018: 'There's no reason why the miracle of re-establishing the Temple on the Temple Mount isn't possible' — a direct call for the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque

• His spiritual mentor Doug Wilson believes non-Christians should not hold positions of leadership, has said the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote 'was a bad idea,' and believes homosexuals should be exiled or executed

• Was BANNED from Biden's inauguration because he was flagged as an extremist by his own National Guard unit — because of his tattoos.

This man is not fighting 'extremism.' He IS the extremism. His entire worldview is a religious war against Islam. He says it. He writes it. He tattoos it on his body. And now he's commanding the largest military operation in the Middle East since Iraq.

And yet talk about ‘Islamic prophecy illusions.’

The New Yorker, coming out of the bullpen

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Coda to Trump’s meeting with the Generals

In the twenty-four hours since Trump’s disastrous speech to the generals, he has remained out of sight in the White House. An article by Tom Nichols in The Atlantic focused on Trump’s obvious mental deterioration—and its implications for national security. What does the military do if the president is not sane? See The Atlantic, The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay.

Nichols writes,

[T]he generals and admirals should be forgiven if they walked out of the auditorium and wondered: What on earth is wrong with the commander in chief? [¶] In 1973, an Air Force nuclear-missile officer named Harold Hering asked a simple question during a training session: “How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president?” The question cost him his career. Military members are trained to execute orders, not question them. But today, both the man who can order the use of nuclear arms and the man who would likely verify such an order gave disgraceful and unnerving performances in Quantico. How many officers left the room asking themselves Major Hering’s question?

Trump’s tentative grasp on reality is so obvious that Speaker Mike Johnson avoided commenting on Trump’s performance by claiming that he did not watch it. See Mediate, ‘Oh My God, Please!’ House Democrat Confronts Mike Johnson Over Trump’s Comments to Generals. (Mike Johnson: “I didn’t see it.”)

Mike Johnson may not have watched Trump’s remarks in their entirety, but he saw video clips—as did most people in America. Trump’s political allies are so embarrassed by his deranged comments that they are denying knowledge of a major policy speech by the president to all senior leaders of the military.

Speaker Johnson’s denial is not credible. It is evidence that those around Trump recognize his mental deterioration and are attempting to conceal it—thereby highlighting the urgency of their fears.