Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), infamous for pretending to be Native American to advance her career, is on the warpath and she has Pete Hegseth in her sights. In a scathing letter, Warren demanded Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense answer for his previous pledges to end DEI in the military and hold generals involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal accountable.
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She also seemed oddly obsessed with Hegseth’s tattoos, suggesting he could be an “insider threat.”
Elizabeth Warren has sent a letter to Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth in which she claims that having a Deus Vult tattoo, Latin for “God’s will” and a Christian motto that dates back to the First Crusade, makes him a “potential insider threat.” pic.twitter.com/4lySEYI9vn
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 7, 2025
When Warren et al obfuscate about the woke/DEI nonsense, remember Milley claiming it’s offensive to say anyone at DOD is woke (while he ranted about “white rage”). And remember— when Milley was defending DEI, DoD was weeks away from defeat in Afghanistan…https://t.co/118Pzlj5a1
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) January 7, 2025
Sen. Elizabeth Warren strongly suggested that there are concerns that Army veteran Pete Hegseth could be an “insider threat” due to his Christian tattoo and seethed over his crusade against woke military policies in a blistering missive to the defense secretary designee.
While outlining over 70 questions to Hegseth and giving him four days to reply, Warren made clear that she sees him as “unfit” to helm the Pentagon and teased a fiery showdown when he appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee next week.
“I am deeply concerned by the many ways in which your behavior and rhetoric indicates that you are unfit to lead the Department of Defense,” Warren, 75, wrote in the 33-page letter to Hegseth sent late Monday.
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I find it pretty disturbing that a senator would be so incensed at the idea of holding military leadership accountable for their failures. Is that surprising, though, given her support for DEI initiatives, which rely on subverting merit to justify their existence?
“Anyone nominated to your position should know that civilians establish policies that are then carried out by the military,” Warren sternly stressed to Hegseth. “I am concerned by proposals to hold military leaders responsible for policy decisions made by civilian leaders.”
President-elect Donald Trump has previously announced that he would ask “all generals” involved in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal to resign by noon on his Inauguration Day.
Warren fretted that Hegseth would likely be on board with that and also assailed his criticism of the Defense Department’s woke initiatives as well as its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.
Hegseth has publicly called for the firing of top military brass who were “involved in any of the DEI/woke s–t,” arguing that the Pentagon needs to be depoliticized.
Democrats spent years claiming that the military should be allowed to disobey orders handed down by Trump. When various officials undermined his administration, that was lauded as protecting the country. Yet, when it comes to the disastrous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, suddenly, generals are just passive bystanders who can’t be expected to object to anything.
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Her argument is a strawman, though. Yes, President Joe Biden ignored the advice of many military leaders in how he conducted the withdrawal, but within the actual plan that was carried out, numerous examples of military officials failing to do their jobs properly emerged. That includes Gen. Mark Milley refusing the Taliban’s offer to secure Kabul, which could have prevented the attacks on Abbey Gate. Leaving soldiers outside the wire and completely exposed was also a massive screw-up along with the abandonment of so much equipment. There were serious breakdowns that high-level officials need to answer for.
As to the DEI stuff, it has been nothing but a drain on every branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. Recruitment is in the toilet, and a big part of that has been the unfair marginalization of what has traditionally been the military’s largest pool of applicants: White males. No one should be passed over for a promotion because left-wingers decided that DEI is more important than fairness and readiness.
SEE: Army Recruitment of White Soldiers Plummets, Take a Wild Guess Why
These guttural screams from Warren stem from the Democrat expectation that elections simply do not affect them. They truly believe that even when they lose, they should be able to win by controlling the unelected bureaucracies that hold so much power over Americans. Today is a new day, though, and Warren will soon learn that elections have consequences. If I’m Hegseth, I don’t even bother to respond to her demands. She’s not asking questions in good faith, having already said in the letter he should not be confirmed. So why waste the time? Let her seethe.
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