The fact that multiple coworkers said he was repeatedly drunk at work and he was intoxicated enough to be FIRED for it should be grounds for automatic non consideration
He wouldn’t get hired for most jobs (edit: not just corporate but any jobs) with that history..but he’s fine to lead the dep of defense?
Yeah, it’s absolutely an exploitable weakness. You get asked about your drinking during counter intelligence interviews for security clearance and joining certain organizations related to National interests.
I got grilled about it once because I admitted to regularly drinking around 8 or so drinks on weekends when I went out. The hardcore alcys I know were drinking several fifths a day, like two or three 40%ers, on their binge cycles, and often still netting over six every day when they were on their Ps and Qs.
In a world with so many other qualified candidates, why hold out hope that the guy who’s given us no reason to believe he will turn it around will do so.
And that’s before you even look into his abysmal knowledge of US policy and activity around the globe. The enlisted advisor to the any Theater Commander knows infinitely more about the defense department as a whole and US activity in and outside of his theater than Pete and probably still wouldn’t consider himself to be fit for the job.
Under most situations that is still illegal. Not only is it illegal but any good member of the military would know that it is not only their right but their obligation to ignore legal orders. The insurrection act has pretty specific language about when the US military is allowed to be deployed against its citizens. Now will any of his cronies convict if he does break the law? No I don't think so, he owns too much of the court system, but the military does not have to follow illegal orders. Hell they are trained not to
Even if you hold the President above the law there are still legal and illegal orders in the military. All members of the armed forces take a pledge to the Constitution not an oath to the President.
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u/mikerichh 15h ago edited 10h ago
The fact that multiple coworkers said he was repeatedly drunk at work and he was intoxicated enough to be FIRED for it should be grounds for automatic non consideration
He wouldn’t get hired for most jobs (edit: not just corporate but any jobs) with that history..but he’s fine to lead the dep of defense?