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DEEP THROAT 2.0, The Powerful Pentagon Cell, Is Forcing Hegseth’s Removal Before A Taiwan Crisis, A European Crisis, or A Middle East Crisis Start.

DEEP THROAT 2.0, The Powerful Pentagon Cell, Is Forcing Hegseth’s Removal Before A Taiwan Crisis, A European Crisis, or A Middle East Crisis Start.

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I. LEAKS, STAFF FIRINGS AND CHAOS INGULF THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

It’s been quite a few days. As Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Press Secretary said upon resigning: “It’s been a week from hell.” And the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shouted on Fox and Friends Monday morning:

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“This is what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you…”

Trump has, at last, figured it out. First Musk’s secret briefing of the Pentagon’s War Plan to defend Taiwan was publicly disclosed to great consternation and embarrassment. Then Signal-gate occurs, and the Editor in Chief of the Atlantic is mysteriously dropped into a Top Secret NSC Briefing on Signal without a trace, and the proceedings published in the Atlantic; then a mass firing of Secretary Hegseth’s personal staff for causing leaks, with no proof, occurs…

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