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HEGSETH MUST GO – IF TRUMP WON’T FIRE HIM, CONGRESS MUST IMPEACH
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Robert Reich
September 3, 2026
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_ Hegseth is the most incompetent person in the Trump regime — with
the exception of Trump himself — and a clear and present danger to
the security of the United States and the world. _

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during the
press conference held by The United States President Donald Trump in
the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 6,
2026, in Washington DC, United States. , Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu
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The latest casualty of Pete Hegseth’s disastrous tenure as Secretary
of “War” is Dan Driscoll, who resigned
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Monday as Secretary of the Army after repeatedly clashing with the
Heg.

Driscoll isn’t a liberal in lion’s clothing. He’s an old friend
of JD Vance from Yale Law days. He resigned because of his concerns
that Hegseth is damaging the Army’s efforts to modernize and adapt
to the 21st century battlefield environment — where drone warfare is
becoming increasingly important — by firing or pushing out leaders
spearheading those efforts.

A defense official in Europe told CNN
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that even though Hegseth talks about technology reform, he’s
focusing instead on “muscles, dudes in dresses, testosterone.”

Hegseth’s tenure has been disastrous from the moment he walked into
the Pentagon. Even if Trump were capable of hearing sound advice,
Hegseth hasn’t come close to giving it to him. Instead, he’s been
pursuing grievances about DEI, promoting testosterone, and denigrating
or firing women and Black officers.

The Army now has no Senate-confirmed secretary or chief of staff
(George’s replacement, General Christopher LaNeve, so far doesn’t
have the votes to be confirmed).

The Iran war, meanwhile, is requiring the ongoing deployment of 19
warships, air-defense units, fighter squadrons and paratroopers across
the region — straining service members and their families and
creating a maintenance backlog that could take years to unwind,
according to _The Wall Street Journal._
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_The_ _Washington Post _reports
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that multiple senior military leaders — those still left, that is
— have warned Hegseth that the United States cannot indefinitely
extend military operations against Iran. Even the chief of naval
operations, Admiral Daryl Caudle (who campaigned for the job by
signaling agreement
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with Hegseth’s culture-war obsessions), told Hegseth that the Navy
cannot “sustain its current level of support for the Iran conflict
because there is no anticipated end date.”

Hegseth’s response? He castigated the media for revealing classified
information.

I’ve known many other defense secretaries, starting with Cap
Weinberger, who served as defense secretary under Reagan. I can say
without fear of contradiction that Pete Hegseth is the stupidest and
least qualified of them all.

Hegseth’s incompetence and determination to suck up to Trump helped
launch the war against Iran in the first place.

Among the regime’s senior officials, Hegseth was the only one who
supported Trump’s fantasies of a quick victory. Marco Rubio was
against the war as was JD Vance; even then–Director of National
Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told Trump that a war with Iran was not
winnable.

Since then, Hegseth has lied his way through more than six months of
Pentagon and Iran war mayhem.

At a press briefing in March, Hegseth complained about a CNN report
that the Trump administration had underestimated Iran’s ability to
disrupt global oil traffic by closing the Strait of Hormuz.
“Patently ridiculous,” Hegseth told
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reporters, adding — even as the strait’s blockage was proving to
be Iran’s most powerful leverage in the war — we “don’t need
to worry about it.” It was a false and insulting claim to an
American public that deserved to know what the Trump regime was
planning to do about soaring prices at the gas pump, directly due to
that blockage.

He also denied that the U.S. bombed the school where some 175 children
were killed — a claim belied by mounting evidence
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that the U.S. _did_ bomb the school. Hegseth’s further insistence
that the U.S. “never targets civilians
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U.S. military’s killing of over 200 people on small boats in the
Caribbean without evidence they were “narcoterrorists” rather than
civilians.

Hegseth then lied about the severity of Iranian attacks on U.S. bases
in the Persian Gulf that disrupted logistical support for American
forces, leading to the deprivations suffered by the crew of the
aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln.

Hegseth evidently believes that his job is to cheerlead and defend
Trump with absurd claims
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like “We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump we’re
finishing it” and “America is winning decisively, devastatingly,
and without mercy” and “we will show no quarter for our
enemies.” (“No quarter” means kill everyone and take no
prisoners, which is a war crime.)

In the days leading up to the U.S. attack on Iran, Hegseth spent his
time criticizing “wokeness” at American universities and forcing
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to abandon programs aimed at promoting diversity.

Last year, he didn’t just mistakenly share the military’s plans
with the editor of _The Atlantic_; we now know he shared them with a
_second _Signal group, including his wife, brother, and personal
lawyer.

John Ullyot, who resigned as Pentagon spokesman, said Hegseth had
brought “total chaos” to the Pentagon and that the Pentagon “is
in disarray under Hegseth’s leadership.”

Hegseth dismisses war crimes, pooh-poohs the rules of engagement, and
projects unequivocal belligerence at a time when the United States is
rapidly losing whatever moral standing it once had in the world.

Pete Hegseth is the most incompetent person in the Trump regime —
with the exception of Trump himself — and a clear and present danger
to the security of the United States and the world. If Trump won’t
fire him, Democrats should impeach him when (hopefully) they take over
the House next January, and two-thirds of the Senate should convict
him.

 

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