(CNN: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Monday that the Pentagon is taking administrative action to punish Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, by moving to cut his retirement pay for participating in a video where he and other Democratic lawmakers reminded US service members of their duty to refuse illegal orders.)
Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out.
I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.
My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays.
I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.
Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired service member that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.
If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it.
I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.
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He wanted to Fuck Around / Find Out. 😂😂😂. What happened to FiShIg bOaTs with 4 200hp engines. 😆🤣🤙😂😘.
“Soy un prisionero de guerra”: así fue la comparecencia de Nicolás Maduro en la corte de NY
“Soy un hombre decente, el presidente constitucional de mi país”, dijo un Nicolás Maduro desafiante en el tribunal de Manhattan donde se declaró inocente.
Kelly will get his money back.
Impeach, convict, remove, jail, flush. 5-step plan that solves problems.
China XI has spoken out! And he is not happy about what Trump has done to Venezuela! And that he has nothing to do with Venezuela oil!!🫵 Where will this end??? China and Russia are not happy now.
This is truly embarrassing, how could a great nation like America have such a secretary of defense no more intellectual than a 5-year-old?
Time for a Blanket Party.
It is now an offense, in MAGA world, to tell someone that they cannot be forced into breaking the law. This is old Soviet bloc style government.
E P S T E I N F I L E S
Two Russian Warships Off the Coast of Venezuela - Signal an Impending Clash.
What will TACO do?
He will TACO.
I want him out now! No impeachment conviction is going to stop him. Do it NOW!
Why aren't more people playing his meeting with shock jock Howard Stern, when Trump said his limit was 12-year-old girls for sex? It should be on national news! 👁
Too bad the American military decided to reject their oath to protect the country from all enemies foreign and domestic and become part of the Trump Threat.
Go for Putin now America, since you are policing the world..
Bring that murderous fucker to a tough American prison, like our Cameron County jail. . .
Hegseth is an embarrassment and traitor in my opinion, He is a coward, drunk and our safety at risk. Unqualified fucktard!!!
If they're charging him as a drug dealer and not a President - then there is no reason for America to re-enter Venezuela to do anything, he's a drug dealer. If he's a President and a regime change is needed - then Trump committed war crimes by kidnapping another country's president. Trump and any military involved should be held accountable for war crimes.
Take that, president bone spurs. You too, booze hound.
Meanwhile no healthcare, no tariff check, can't afford groceries, housing too expensive. Capturing Maduro does nothing for Americans trying to take care of their families in this economy. DRUMPH is a disgrace and GOP going along with this sick sh*t.
7:07. I don’t care about the fishing boats. Trump is f*cking with the
Chinese. He has stepped into a smoldering wet pile of dung. His efforts should be here trying to repair his tariff-disaster economy.
Tariff disaster economy?
Calm down commie. Everything is fine.
Do you fat commies really need more food? Has malnutrition become the new health issue? Housing is so bad that banks don't know what to do with all the foreclosures. Lastly, don’t you low lives get free health insurance?
Wow! Did you figure this out on your own or did you get help from your Comrades from the Harvard institution of South Texas?
Commie=Russia=Putin=Trump 👅
Trump is an old man. He ages too.
I'm losing sleep worrying about China and Russia not being happy.
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