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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 servicemember 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.
The Trump administration refused to allow Mahmoud Khalil to be with his wife as she gave birth to their first child. This man is in jail for constitutionally protected speech, but the administration decided they also had to punish his wife and newborn baby.
We have a president who’s trying to be a dictator and when even his own Supreme Court appointees try to rein him in they’re ignored by his government while his supporters openly call for suspending the Constitution. This is not a political party, it’s a regime bent on replacing American democracy. The sooner we all realize that the better.
Reminder that enough Senate Republicans knew it was a bad idea to let a weekend Fox and Friends anchor run the U.S. military but voted yes anyway because they were literally threatened by the President’s allies and everyone just shrugged because hey that’s America now.
He wore the cheesehead hat in WI. Spent $20 million. Paid people to sign petitions. Paid people to canvas. Did million dollar giveaways. A rally. TV interviews. But I guess people in Wisconsin didn’t appreciate an oligarch trying to buy their civil liberties.