Pete Hegseth getting busted for his misogyny and racism was a perfect way to kick off this first post-election week. MS NOW dug into his entire filthy campaign — which involved only using paper files and phone calls so they wouldn’t get busted — to short-circuit the military’s merit-based promotion system and replace it with a new system his office invented to specifically remove women and men of color from the senior ranks of our military.
He and Trump are apparently afraid that if they decide to turn the military against us using the Insurrection Act or a state of emergency, the women and non-white male officers may be an obstacle to their troops training their guns on the rest of us.
In doing so, they broke multiple laws as well as the traditions of our military, and much of that is now documented in Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massey’s impeachment articles against “Pretty Pete” that were submitted yesterday in the House.
A former Army Judge Advocate (JAG Corps) officer came right out and called the entire process a crime: under federal law only the president can strike one- and two-star flag officers from the promotion lists.
In addition, officers are legally entitled to both a written explanation and an appeal process when promotions are withheld, and “Pretty Pete” offered neither. He could be looking at jail, if we had anybody other than Todd Blanche in the Attorney General’s office.
But two years from now, if we can get a Democratic president, is still well within the statute of limitations.