Pete Hegseth is “very likely” to be impeached over his handling of the Iran war, according to a senior Republican.

Senator Ted Cruz said “the votes are there” to sanction the self-style Secretary of State for War.

But Cruz said he believed Hegseth will either stand down voluntarily or be sacked by Donald Trump before then.

Republican Congressman Thomas Massie introduced eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth on Monday.

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[–] 21 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Because Republicans controlled Congress and the Oval and let him...

That's why he's being impeached, it's not that he did horrible shit, he did it without approval.

There's just as much grounds to impeach the president and House/Senate majority leadership for letting him do it.

Your could have this much power over the military as long as everyone with authority just lets you and says people have to do what you say.

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  • [–] 8 points 17 hours ago

    That’s why he’s being impeached, it’s not that he did horrible shit, he did it without approval.

    He probably had approval, just not on paper, and now he's the fall guy because he thought he was one of the boys.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago

    Nothing Hegseth did was without the explicit consent of the president and the implicit consent of Republican controlled congress(and quite a lot of Democrats)

    And at ANY TIME congress could have pulled funding for the war as is their power constitutionally.

    This is simply a way to shovel all the blame onto one person while obfuscating their own accountability, Trump's own accountability, and Israel's accountability.

    While actively avoiding the mechanism in their face that could end this war tomorrow because deep down most Republicans and a good chunk of Democrats support these actions or at least the larger foreign policy behind it.

    Which TBC also only works if Trump doesn't continue the war and goes further up the escalation ladder. Which by all accounts he is positioning to do.

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