U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Jeffrey Kruse. Hegseth declined to give a reason for the firing. But a few top admirals and dozens of other defense analysts also were let go.
What has they done? Kruse notably had contradicted President Donald Trump by declaring that this summer’s missile strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities had produced limited damage.
The question becomes: Did Trump order the firing because he believed Kruse had not been loyal? Were the Iranian facilities actually destroyed, or did they simply suffer limited damage? Here’s more from Vertex.
The Democrat reaction to the bombing of Iranian nuclear sites exemplified all that’s wrong with the Left today. Suddenly, the same Democrats who cheered Obama’s endless airstrikes were invoking the War Powers Act and demanding congressional approval. Why?
Because this time it was Trump’s America that hit back. Their volatile, inconsistent messaging isn’t new. Victor Davis Hanson unpacks the deeper story behind the chaos of how the Democrat Party has surrendered to its most radical base on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
“The Left knows that they are not polling well,” Hanson says. “They know that the party’s base is controlling their narrative, and they know that that narrative supports issues from transgenderism, to an open border, to lax enforcement of criminal statutes, to something like Kabul, abroad, that has no public support. And they’re angry.”
“ Whatever Donald Trump has done to them—and maybe that will be his lasting legacy—he had the ability to expose what used to be Democrats, as absolutely unhinged and nihilistic,” Hanson concludes. “And I don’t think anybody wants any part of them.”
