The first, for lack of a better word, "controversial" cabinet pick from Donald Trump is naming Pete Hegseth as his Secretary of Defense. "Controversial" in the sense that Hegseth isn't a career bureaucrat and is ONLY a decorated Yale and Harvard-educated twenty-year combat veteran who is the CEO of a Veterans advocacy organization.

Oh, and he is (or was) a host on Fox News. That's where the "controversy" comes in for CNN. Who, if they didn't watch Fox News and complain, wouldn't have much else to talk about.

Scott Jennings was NOT having any of it. The lone voice of sanity on "the most trusted name in news" drew comparisons to Joe Biden's "expert" pick. Unlike Biden, Jennings could remember Lloyd Austin's name as something other than "the black man."

Does anyone have confidence in the current leadership of the Pentagon? And the way the defense situation has been operating for the last several years? I mean, from the Afghanistan pullout, which was an extreme debacle for which no one was held accountable. We've had spy balloons flying over the United States. We built a $300 million pier as a public relations stunt, which wound up killing an American service member.

Also, under the current regime, recruitment is at all-time and dangerously low levels, and 62% of veterans would NOT recommend military service to young people. Yay, trusting the "experts!"

Donald Trump was elected by the American people to disrupt and do the exact opposite that the people who control Joe Biden have done for the past few years. They elected him to bring in people from outside the government bureaucracy to run and FIX what has been broken.

Does Pete Hegseth have "government" experience? No. That's a good thing.

I also think there is a degree of jealousy from Jennings's CNN colleagues that they won't be the ones hired by the president for the next 4-12 years.

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