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Rhiannon12866

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Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:39 PM Sep 2025

'Sounding even more weird by the hour': Hegseth's military general gathering raises alarm bells - Deadline - MSNBC



Mark Hertling, Retired United States Army Lieutenant General, and Claire McCaskill, Former Democratic Senator from Missouri join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline: White House to discuss the upcoming gathering of nearly all of the United States military generals at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for reasons that have still not been made clear, and how this gathering poses an immense national security risk and could potentially cost the government millions of dollars. - Aired on 09/29/2025.
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'Sounding even more weird by the hour': Hegseth's military general gathering raises alarm bells - Deadline - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Sep 2025 OP
Reason is to make Hegseth feel like a bigshot and provide video of him speaking BlueWaveNeverEnd Sep 2025 #1
Though TFG has said will be there and is likely to take over the meeting as he loves to do. Rhiannon12866 Sep 2025 #2
Yep. Hegseth will be regulated to standing behind Trump while Trump babbles on and on BlueWaveNeverEnd Sep 2025 #3
Hopefully the military leaders will survive Whiskey Pete's stunt unscathed. Sneederbunk Sep 2025 #4

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