Trump advisers lose confidence in Pentagon leak investigation Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides
The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Pete Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides last month, after advisers were told that the aides had supposedly been outed by an illegal warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap.
The extraordinary explanation alarmed the advisers, who also raised it with people close to JD Vance, because such a wiretap would almost certainly be unconstitutional and an even bigger scandal than a number of leaks.
But the advisers found the claim to be untrue and complained that they were being fed dubious information by Hegseth’s personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, who had been tasked with overseeing the investigation.
The episode, as recounted by four people familiar with the matter, marked the most extraordinary twist in the investigation examining the leak of an allegedly top secret document that outlined options for the US military to reclaim the Panama canal to a reporter.
It’s possible Trump is currently speedrunning into the classic “Dictator’s trap” the same way he’s been speedrunning everything else he’s done. There’s a reason most dictators end up paranoid lunatics, and it’s because the further they go, the fewer people they can trust, until they eventually realize they can’t trust anyone.
That’s one speedrun I will welcome.
Trump in Hitler Bunker any%
I’m not sure I’ll ever understand why anyone would want to be a dictator. No one *truly likes them, their people are miserable and they have tons of blood on their hands. I’d say that as soon as you try to become a dictator, you’re in a trap of your own making.
Most of them die miserable deaths too, although there are a lot that don’t. Knowing trump’s luck, he’ll die at 104 surrounded by his grandchildren. Karma has never met a trump.
You could ask the same of communists, military authoritarians, theocrats. They’re convinced they know better than everyone else and that debate or prevarication is a waste of time and will allow their foes to muddy the waters.
But, but, Communism has never been given a fair shake, and we’d totally get it right next time once we outlawed all the other political parties (all Fascists) and only used our power to ensure counter-revolutionaries were suppressed!