TOP General BREAKS SILENCE and TORCHES Trump

The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General CQ Brown Jr. is breaking his. silence and he is torching Donald Trump. in an op-ed for Foreign Policy magazine. And in a recent panel discussion before. the Aspen Institute, he was not holding. back. He was calling out the Trump. regime for firing some of our top. generals and top admirals for political. reasons. Frankly, for racist and.

misogynistic reasons as well. He was. calling out Pete Hegsith. And of course, he did use some diplomatic language in. how he did it. But he brought this. forward in a July 4th message where if. you read between the lines or actually. read the lines, he compares Donald Trump. to the kings of yestery year under the. rule when the United States was ruled by. Britain and there was a monarchy. and he.

describes how the American experiment. was pushing back against monarchs and. kings who would put their military uh as. civilian police. Let me show you. I. mean, this is some powerful stuff. Here's how the Wall Street Journal. characterized it. Former top general. warns the military is being politicized. And for those who know CQ Brown Jr., You. know, they know that for him to get to.

this level, he is sounding the red. alarm. Folks, CQ Brown, who was fired as. Trump's top general by Hegsith early on, questioned Donald Trump's handling of. the armed forces. And it goes on to talk. about how he published this essay on. Friday also with two co-authors where he. cautioned that sending the military into. American cities for politically. contentious missions like under the.

guise of fighting crime risk. compromising its traditionally. apolitical role and diverting it from. combat missions. And then he went uh and. wrote this op-ed in Foreign Affairs. magazine following an appearance at the. Aspen Institute where he basically said, "Donald Trump's behaving like a tyrant.". I'll get to that in a moment. CQ Brown. told the Aspen Institute, "What's. starting to happen right now? It's not.

about merit." Well, if it was about. merit, then CQ Brown Jr. wouldn't have. been fired. He was appointed by Donald. Trump in 2020 as the Air Force chief of. staff and then he was appointed by. former President Biden basically. unanimously. Every Senate wanted, you. know, him to be on there and then Donald. Trump fired him because Pete Hexith. didn't want a black leader of the. chairman as the chairman of the Joint. Chiefs of St. Let's just call it what it. is and not mince our words, folks. Um, let's talk about uh what he wrote for uh.

foreign policy magazine. Here it is. the. military and the republic. What. America's armed forces can and cannot do. for democracy. I thought this was one of. the most uh powerful parts where he says. the ideal was better than reality 250. years ago. Uh and so it is today. The. military must protect the respect that. it is earned from American society by. scrupulously following all lawful orders.

and by demonstrating every day that it. is nonpartisan. In so doing, service. members honor the oath they swear, not. to a particular party or political. leader, but to the Constitution itself. What is at stake ultimately is the moral. fabric from which the military draws its. deepest strength. As Lieutenant General. Howal Moore observed in his 1992 book,

We Were Soldiers Once and Young, American Soldiers in Battle don't fight. for what some president says on TV. They. don't fight for mom or apple pie, the. American flag. They fight for one. another. This is the same mutual. obligation that at its core defines. citizenship itself. The country's. liberty depends on a mutual commitment. to one another regardless of color, creed, party, or military service. We'll.

get to that in a moment, but I want to. just show you how he starts off this. op-ed or this essay in Foreign Affairs. magazine. He goes, "Celebrations of. America's founding and reflections on. its ideals often overlook the central. role of civil military relations." This. is a mistake. In the Declaration of. Independence, a chief complaint was that. King George III affected to render the.

military independent of and superior to. the civil power. George Washington. himself worried about this abuse of. power and went to great pains to avoid. it in his own career. Throughout the. revolutionary war, he constantly. deferred to the Continental Congress. despite its calamitous delays and. erratic instructions because he. recognized that his authority over the. Continental Army flowed from the. people's representatives. Given his. immense personal popularity, he was.

often encouraged to redress this or that. political dysfunction. But he knew that. the republic would suffer in the long. run if the military were to become an. instrument of the commander's will. rather than of the polit the political. leaders, the people's political leaders. Hello. Then he goes on to say, in the. face of genuine national disaster, the. public will readily embrace the. military's help. During the Great. Depression, for instance, Herbert Hoover. directed the military to set up relief.

camps and President Franklin Roosevelt. ordered it to establish the Civilian. Conservation Corps, which put unemployed. men to work to develop public land. But. when presidents use the armed forces for. more politically contentious missions, such as addressing crime in cities, the. work of the military becomes more. fraught, resorting to a military. solution rather than fixing the. underlying incapacity or dysfunction in. civil institutions diverts the military. from focusing on its primary combat.

mission. And as Washington knew, it is. not the military's job to save the. republic from political impass. Indeed, if you ask too much of the military, you. risk the entire enterprise. You risk the. entire damn enterprise. Could he be any clearer, folks? Well, he. can be. He says, "The lesson is critical. today." He's like, "Okay, if I haven't. been that clear, let me just spell it.

out for you before I conclude here. The. lesson is critical today. Throughout. this year of remembrance, the military. has played an outside ceremonial role. Asking the uniform military to serve in. an honor guard, lead a parade, or. conduct stirring flyovers makes sense. The military excels at ceremony and. provides a unifying symbol. And these. acts help citizens look with pride in. the republic's capacity for strength and. resilience. They may even inspire some. to join the ranks of all volunteer. forces, but they should not be seen as a.

military monopoly on patriotism. Instead, patriotism means recognizing. the promise of America's founding, the. progress of its past, and the potential. of a shared future. Patriots should also. find inspiration to serve in government, or to deepen their involvement in local. communities. the military can help by. honoring the important national service. that civilians do out of uniform. Now, he previously spoke at Harvard at the uh.

Institute of Politics there. And here he. is speaking out about the Trump war. crimes in Manab. Let's play this clip. Most of you all know the United States. made a horrible mistake and hit an. Iranian girls school during the first. wave of attacks that killed about 175. people. Most of them were um young women. who were under the age of 13. And.

the initial explanation that came out. was mixed. The president said the. Iranians did it. The office of the. secretary of defense public affairs said. the advanced AI model did it. The. military to their credit said we made a. mistake and there have been different. explanations for that too. Um so it. leads to the question uh chairman is. when there's a targeting process like. that or later down the road if there is.

a more autonomous type weapon and you're. trying to figure out who should be. accountable in a situation like that. which has always been super important to. the US military. Um how have you thought. about that? It's a it's a really hard. question. It is, but you I still think. there's a commander or someone that. signs off on. >> Yeah. >> You know, whether it's a analyst that. signs off that this is a good target. You know, in this example that you just.

talked about the school, you know, when. things get reccharacterized or you have. bad intel or late intel. I mean, the. same thing happened with the uh duri. force where we struck a building that we. thought we didn't know was a Chinese. embassy. >> Yeah. Right. Yeah. In Yugoslavia. >> In Yugoslavia. you you can make those. kinds of mistakes based on the the data. you have. Um but the big picture here is. um you know I say the commander is. ultimately responsible uh but there may. be somebody down at the lower level that.

that should be checking these things. that that's why you want to have a human. loop that can cross check it against. >> it does does this even look right does. this make sense based on our experience. which is why I think it's so important. that we. >> we we understand some of the basic you. know fundamentals. >> so we don't just kick back and let AI do. it all and go it was AI's fault and And. then you know who's who is it the person. that asked the prompt? Is it developer. of the AI? Is it you know you could go. down, you know, several different. lawsuits to figure out who would.

ultimately be responsible, >> right? >> The issue is we got to figure out how to. in a conflict, how do you continue to. keep moving forward and uh making sure. we're we're being effective but also uh. doing things in line with the law of. armed conflict. >> Okay, great. Thank you. Here he talked. about how the United States rushed to. war with Iran and it had disastrous. results. Play this clip. >> Finding the right capability for a war. fighter both on the offensive and. defensive end. Our casualty numbers. could match, you know, equivalent of.

World War II or Vietnam, which is not. something we had we've had to deal with, >> right? >> U mostly throughout my career. And so we. we can't walk in with a bunch of hubris. of this won't happen to us, but we just. saw it happen with 13 service members. that have been killed, 350 or so that. have been injured, and not to mention. number of aircraft that have been lost, which you know um that's not something. we haven't lost a lot of aircraft uh. particularly like an Awax sitting on a. ramp. >> Yeah. Um, and those are the kinds of. things that uh should shock us a bit.

into reality that. >> [clears throat]. >> um, you know, war and going into into a. conflict is not something we you know, you just just take lightly. >> You got to take it seriously because. you're putting men and women's lives at. risk. And I'll just tell you personally, um, you know, with every loss, it impacts me. because I know someone's going to show. up in a dress uniform to knock on. somebody's door to tell them, you know, your son, your daughter, your husband or. wife is no longer with us.

and that just disrupts the family and. that that weighs heavily on me. >> Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, chairman. And. finally here he was talking on this. panel about the erosion of our promotion. boards in the military and he's. responding to a question about how Pete. Hegsith is allowing Apache helicopters. to do flyovers with Kid Rock and how. after there's discipline then Hegit says.

I'm overturning the discipline right. there. I'm overturning discipline. This. goes back to the essay that he wrote in. foreign policy magazine where he says. doing like doing stuff like that. erodess the very confidence of our. military. It makes us weaker. It doesn't. make us look stronger. You think the. rest of the world looks at that crap and. goes, "Oh, look how tough they are." No, they think we're clown shows. That's. what he's saying. That's what General CQ. Brown is saying here. Play this clip. There were certain things that would.

never have even crossed our minds that. over the past couple days I've seen that. that make me nervous for the. institution. Um, this sounds funny, but. an Army helicopter doing an overflight. of Kid Rock, that's like super unprofessional. The. Secretary of Defense deciding there's. going to be no accountability for that. when the uniform military says that. they'll be held accountable is crazy. The Secretary of Defense pulling members.

off a onestar promotion list for reasons. that are almost certainly to do with. their identity is crazy. That had never. that's not something that would have. happened before. >> [snorts]. >> Um, so again, chairman, you know, you're. too professional to comment on news. because that's not your role, but can. you just talk about if you're the. chairman and you're thinking about. civilian political appointee leadership, what role do they have to build that. trust in the institution?

>> Well, part of this, you know, you think. about the role of of a military member. at the senior level, particularly as a. chairman when you're providing advice. and and part of that is being able to. provide the advice of how you would. handle those types of situations. And uh I'll just tell you just like you, I'm concerned. Uh I don't have all the. facts on some of these, but uh having. had to deal with situations of. unauthorized flybys. as a commander, um having sat on promotion boards,

uh reviewed results from promotion. boards, I know they're are fair based on. merit. And um if what I'm hearing is being. reported is true, it it is very. concerning because it does. >> start the road get over and discipline. and ensuring that people that are all. giving a fair opportunity. No one wants. to be advantage or disadvantaged based. on their background. They just want to have an opportunity to.

compete. And once you've gone through a. promotion board and having sat on. promotion boards, as I said, um um from. my experience, they've been fair. There. you have it, folks. Let me know what you. think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7. million subscribers. Seriously, let's. try to get to 7 million. We're getting. there. But just double check that you're. subscribed. Let's keep on going. Help us. hit 7 million subscribers. We appreciate. you all so much. Thank you so much. New. Midas merch. Head to. store.midestouch.com [music] today and. get yourself the best prodemocracy gear.

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