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  1. cheerfulcharlie says

    Apparently, Trump wants Lee Zeldin to be our next attorney general. Zeldin, current EPA secretary is a New York politician. Looking at a few articles about him, he is not going to be an improvement. How Zeldin will handle the Epstein scandal remains to be seen. It is all right now a dog’s breakfast.

  2. AstroLad says

    You’d think Dump would run out of toadies when it finally gets through to them that loyalty only runs one way when he is involved. Then you remember that MAGATs, even those with advanced degrees, have at best the equivalent of a single-digit IQ.

  3. says

    tRUMP and smiller (a real jewish nazi, wtf) will just pick another malevolent swamp dweller to fill all these emptied positions. And, there is an endless supply of them.

  6. drdrdrdrdralhazeneuler says

    Let’s hope we won’t go from the frying Pam into the fire…

  10. beholder says

    It’s no decapitation strike on Washington D.C., but I’ll delight in small morsels of good news.

  12. John Morales says

    In the news: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hegseth-has-asked-us-army-chief-staff-step-down-cbs-news-reports-2026-04-02/
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    WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) – U.S. Army Chief of Staff Randy George was fired on Thursday by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, two U.S. ‌defense officials and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, in the latest purge among the Pentagon’s most senior ranks.
    Hegseth, a former Fox News host, has moved quickly to reshape the department, firing generals and admirals as he seeks to implement U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security agenda.

    The Pentagon confirmed ​that George, who had more than a year left in his term, “will be retiring from his position as the ​41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately.”
    The Pentagon said in a statement it was grateful ⁠for George’s decades of service. “We wish him well in his retirement,” it said.
    The department did not give a reason for his departure, ​which comes as the U.S. military builds up its forces in the Middle East while carrying out operations against Iran.

  13. Akira MacKenzie says

    Considering what she knows, you’d think that Trump would keep her as close to the vest as possible. I would guess that she’s still loyal enough to the cause to keep her mouth shut about the Epstein files.

  14. drmarcushill says

    Apparently she didn’t want to go after Trump’s political opponents as hard as he wanted, so we can guess what her successor will do out of the gate.

  15. John Morales says

    drmarcushill, nah.
    She genuinely tried her best, both in sycophancy and bullshit and aggro, but she clearly doesn’t have what it takes.

    I reckon Pam Bondi’s fate was sealed after her disastrous efforts before the House Judiciary Committee on 12 February 2026.

    ‘Twas a cringefest. She was fully exposed.

  17. magistramarla says

    The post made by John Morales @ #12 is more worrisome.
    I assume that he was one of the few adults left in the room, and must have pushed back in some way.

  18. stuffin says

    @17 magistramarla

    That or Hegseth is using him as a fall guy to save his own butt.

  19. robro says

    The question I think on Dumpster’s and Miller’s mind is can they stop her subpoena appearance before the House Oversight Committee. The Democrats are saying she still has to answer questions…under oath. Republicans are “thinking” about it. I’m sure they would prefer avoiding that given that her last performance was awful. In any case, it’s yet another battle delaying getting information about The Files. Her firing probably also delays releasing more files. That’s a win for Dumpster. She will be handsomely rewarded for getting thrown under the bus.

  20. Alan G. Humphrey says

    “Good order and discipline.” If there is a mantra in the US military officer corps, that’s it. Hegseth just shit all over that by reinstating the helicopter pilots that did flybys for Kid Rock. Gen. George (see #12 above) likely tried to educate Hegseth as to the importance of good order and discipline. If so, I can see Hegseth taking another dump on the general. He may also still resent how and why his military career ended.

  21. StevoR says

    @ ^ Alan G. Humphrey : Hmm.. yeah. For those who don’t know or have forgotten. Hegseth :

    … was barred from serving on duty at the inauguration of Joe Biden after a guardsman flagged Hegseth as an “insider threat”, noting a tattoo on his biceps of the words Deus vult.[37] He left the Individual Ready Reserve in January 2024, writing in his book The War on Warriors (2024) that he resigned over the incident.

    Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth#Military_service_(2003%E2%80%932006,_2010%E2%80%932014,_2019%E2%80%932021)

  23. Alan G. Humphrey says

    @ StevoR #21
    There are rumors that he chose that story to cover for his disorderly and drunk on the job behavior. No official records have been released, so his claim that the tattoo incident is why he resigned became the account in various encyclopedias.

  24. raven says

    Hegseth fired the Army Chief of Staff because he wasn’t a racist and a misogynist.
    The army wanted to promote 4 officers, two black and two female to one star general rank.
    Hegseth said no because they are black or female.

    This is just pure open racism and misogyny.
    He is denying promotions and trying to purge anyone in the armed forces that aren’t white men.

    Pentagon Pete’s Bigoted Reason for Firing Top General Leaks
    WHITEWASH?
    Hegseth went on a firing spree on Thursday, with a concerning motivation for pushing out the Army chief of staff.
    Cameron Adams Updated Apr. 3 2026 6:30AM EDT edited for length

    The alarming reason behind Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth pushing out the U.S. Army’s highest-ranking officer during wartime has been leaked.

    Hegseth, 45, asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, 61, to quit his role and take immediate retirement, according to reporting by CBS News on Thursday.

    However, a new report reveals that George was removed because he and Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll refused to remove two Black and two female officers from a list of military members to be promoted to one-star generals.

    George and Driscoll defied Hegseth, according to The New York Times, and cited the long and exemplary service of the four officers as justification for their being in line for promotion.
    The publication said most of the 29 other officers on the list for promotion are white men, leading some senior military officials to question whether the four officers were being singled out for their race or gender.

    A report by NBC on Thursday suggested Hegseth had a history of racial and gender discrimination when it came to military promotions of qualified officers in the Army, the Air Force, the Marines, and the Navy.

    Nine U.S. officials familiar with the matter said Hegseth had either blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military.

    The officials suggested the individuals had been targeted by Hegseth because of their race, gender, or links to Biden administration policies.

  25. rorschach says

    Look, I get it, the whole Nazi thing is a bit offputting. And the hiding the Epstein files even after watching child abuse videos owned by the FBI, granted, not ideal. But I think for a 64yo, the holds up pretty well.

  26. says

    So, the DoJ will no longer be the blonde leading the blind?

    Hey, they could always promote Kash Patel. There isn’t actually a requirement that the Attorney General be a competent attorney… as demonstrated by most of the Attorneys General this century. And after those thus far selected by The Orange One, competent management and/or leadership seems irrelevant, too.

  27. says

    @ irgerjohansson wrote: Whoever replaces her needs to be a kook.
    Well, it seems that tRUMP has put his brown nosed personal atty in charge for now. I can’t see him not doing exactly what tRUMP (and his puppeteer smiller) dictate.

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