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Top General Suddenly Quits

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Four Star General Chris Donahue suddenly resigning as Pete Hegseth and Trump continue to destroy the military. Go to https://Dupe.com for their 100% Free R...

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And Africa has announced that he will relinquish command on July 2nd. This has Donald Trump and Pete Higgsith have worked to destroy the reputation and capabilities of the United States military. General Chris Donnieu was a beloved, four-star general. He was a beloved commander known for rising up the ranks and earning the respect of everyone.

And he will now be forced out by Donald Trump and Higgsith. At the same time, Donald Trump and Higgsith have done generational damage to the United States military. I want to talk briefly about General Donnieu. He was also known as the last soldier to leave Afghanistan.

Remember that night division photo of the soldier leaving the Amid Karzai airport?

Yeah, that was General Donnieu.

The first to arrive, the last to leave.

Let's talk a little bit about his background. This is how the Atlantic described it. His abrupt departure after 18 months is another sign of the mass a pival within the United States military. He was widely seen as one of the Army's rising stars, a legendary Delta Force leader who

was considered a top candidate for Army Chief of Staff or even Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, having distinguished himself and wars for the past two decades. That Higgsith sought to oust anyone who didn't fit his idea of what it means to be a Trump and Higgsith sick of an AKA Allusor, a career-ranger and special operations commander Donnieu served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, climbing through the ranks during two decades of counterterrorism

wars. As the US military shifted its focus from hunting terrorist networks to preparing for conflicts against technologically sophisticated adversaries, Donnieu did as well in recent years. He took a top role in Europe as the Pentagon adapted lessons from Ukraine and other modern battlefields.

His departure continues the exit of a generation of combat tested leaders at a time when Higgsith is destroying the leadership ranks of the United States military. Think about the upheaval that has unfolded over the past several months. The other high-profile resignations Higgsith asked Army Chief of Staff General Randy George, the Army's top uniformed officer to step down in April and the Army officer who led the

transportation and training command and the chaplain corps were removed from their roles

As well.

Navy's Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield was removed in April from her position as the United States military. Higgsith and Donald Trump have refused to promote women and minorities. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force General Charles Cube Brown was outstit in February 2025, along with the Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Frachetti, an

Air Force Vice Chief of Staff General James Slyff, shortly before that Coast Guard coming down to Admiral Linda Fagan was fired. Also, the head of U.S. military's southern command, Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey, retired at the end of last year and was forced out. In other words, the Trump regime is gutting, destroying, ripping to shreds the most respected

leaders in the United States military and they are replacing it with people who are willing to behave as bootlickers and sycophants. Let me show you the contrast right now.

First, I want to share with you General Donna Hughes leadership style and you can see

why he was viewed by Higgsith as such a threat. Here is Donna you talking about how his role as the Army commander in Europe in Africa was a role of global scope, and that there was a need to work with our allies, carefully, methodically. Let me show you over here and play this clip.

What is our role? Has the military what do we have to produce? The first thing is especially for the U.S. military, but also for the 32 members of NATO, South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and you'll see many of these other four countries from Asia here as well.

If you were to go across the SAG, you and in SAG too, you see them there. Why? Because we understand the global threat. What is our role here? As the land calm commander for NATO, and as the United States Army, Europe, Africa, are

previous bosses, General Walters, General Kaboli, and now General George in particular,

as we drive what we have to do out here, and what is that specifically?

Because we talk about everything that all these things everybody talks about. What is the specificity required to truly make that change?

The first thing is those previous leaders have converged all the plans, so that we have

unity of effort, and unity of exactly what we have to do, and they're called the regional plans. Within those regional plans, we started in the Baltics to try to get to how do you actually make it so that industry and the nations know exactly what their requirements are? Ultimately that is now known as the Eastern flank deterrence line.

The Eastern flank deterrence line is the capability that hinges all these regional plans together. So as we all talk about these things that are so important, the use of data, you actually can use data. So whenever we talk about how are we going to use these new forms of mass, the unmanned

systems? How do you build that to a standard that you can actually fight it throughout an alliance?

But as important, because this is global, how do you use it in the Middle East?

How do you use it in the Pacific? So all these standards have to be, and that's what the Eastern flank deterrence line will bring to all. Now here is Donna, you talking about the culture of the military that he likes to foster here.

Play this clip right here. The number one thing is they have to understand the first is why you have to change. If you have not put a cross to your command, why you have to change, and they have to buy into it. If they don't buy into it, you're not going to change.

The next is you have to actually provide a legitimate vision and then turn that vision into a plan that you're going to change, and to accomplish the why. This is why we have to change, here's the vision of how we're going to do it, here's the actual plan, and then that gets into culture and process of how you actually execute that change, right?

Because you're going to constantly update, you're going to fail, you're going to do good things. So it's that culture of making sure that they know, hey, this is the environment we want

to create, and this is why you have to change.

And then the process to actually do it, which is hugely important, right? You can go out and have the best culture in the world and go out and make temporary changes, but if you don't get it into the process, it doesn't matter. Right now, we're developing the Eastern Flank deterrence line, which we'll talk about. But if you don't put that into a process where people actually buy the things that you

have to do for this, you can have the greatest plan, the greatest vision, what will all kinds

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do every damn day here play this clip. It's about your team, it's about your mission, it's about everything else, nobody cares if you mess up, just own it and move on and enjoy and know you feel the exact same way. If you mess up, tell everyone else you messed up, let them see that, because if they see that the boss messed up, I can tell when I messed up, because you just want to know what's

going on. I don't care if anybody messed up, it's not about the fact that you messed up. Just tell us you messed up so we can correct it and get back to what we want to do. Now, contrast that to Hegsev and Trump, as we learn from the book regime change, they report that Hegsev and Donald Trump would love to watch the death videos together of those

war crimes where the United States military is killing all those people in the fishing votes off of the coast of Venezuela, according to the book Hegsev and Trump love to watch the charred corpses and they get off on it, essentially. I know it's sadistic and disgusting, but this is what Hegsev and Donald Trump like to do together.

Also, we've learned that Hegsev has run out of money at the Defense Department. He is utterly incompetent. They are now demanding $80 billion for the war in Iran, which they claim only cost $29 billion. Or else they are immanently going to be unable to pay contractors and we are so low on our

munitions that this budget request by Hegsev is being done on an emergency basis. You have Hegsev going out there and just like dancing around and as Governor Newsom says "prancing peat" and then you have Hegsev over here when he was in Cuba basically saying to it saying to the troops in such a performative straight to DVD movie kind of way, which

is Trump has your back, your hands are unleashed, do what you need to do and will have

your back. In other words, he was encouraging them to commit war crimes on camera. Let's play this clip.

So, on behalf of the Board of Harvard and President Trump, you always want to be to tell

you that he's got your back. He's got your back in the circumstances that you need to undertake. That's all I ever want to want to want to want to want to want to want to attend here. We're a person to attend in Iraq. We're going to ask him to do tough things or difficult things, so I have to make a tough

thing as he wants to. Just to have my back, he's not everything's going to go right every single time. If I'm doing it for the right reasons, I'm about to have the country, we are going to untie your hands and unleash you to get it done. So, you come home and the back guy doesn't, that's the point.

And here he is, like, trying to act all tough. He's like, Iran would be unwise to challenge us further, yeah, we're dudes.

Here's what Hanks have had to say.

Let's play this clip. We're with the boat sling it out and out and out and out the person goes in the gulf of them on. And he's sure Iran doesn't target shipping, and again, we're prepared there to do what needs to be done.

Right now, there are defense of strikes to ensure we protect our people. Again, Iran would be unwise to challenge us further, President Trump is seeking a deal, but not just a deal, a great deal on behalf of the American people, so Iran never gets

A nuclear weapon.

And so the type of person who climbs the ranks under the Trump regime is someone like Brad Cooper.

Brad Cooper runs sent com and when I first saw Brad Cooper, you know, a year ago, or so

I said, hey, you know, seems like a normal military guy, but I've seen Cooper devolve into a Trump sick of it, where he goes in front of Congress and just behaves like exit in Trump. And it's been really sad to see when I hear from my military sources, is that they all believe that Cooper is basically a traitor at this point and that he is behaving like

such a magal loser that they never thought that Cooper would behave like that.

And they all mock Cooper behind this back. Here's what Cooper had to say at his last congressional hearing. Let's play. I just read it to you, sir, you're a combatant commander, you're one of our most senior military officers with tens of thousands of service members under your command.

Does the law of war, manual, state that it is prohibited to utter, to declare that no quarter be given? It prohibits a large number of things. No, no. And I will follow.

I just read the provision to you. I just literally read the provision to you.

Does it prohibit you or anyone else from declaring that no quarter be given?

I just read it to you.

We will follow everything that's in the law.

Answer the question at Mo Cooper, you have tens of thousands of service members under your command. And then I literally just read a provision from the law of war, manual, our own manual. Will you not just say what I just read to you? I will say that we will follow the law of armed conflict to the T.

This is just unbelievable to me. I find the same thing, sir. This is just unbelievable to me. You have tens of thousands of service members under your command. I literally verbatim just read a provision from our own law of war manual and you will

refuse to say what that provision says. Will you agree that it is prohibited under our own manual, that you and all the people under your command are obligated to follow, to declare that no quarter be given? I will agree, consist of my constitutional responsibility to follow the law of armed conflict to the T.

And I expect everyone working for me to do that.

This is not leadership. This is not leadership. This is not leadership to not be able to say something as basic. The people, the men and women who we represent, who are under your command. Does the chairman, Mr. Chairman, I object, this is a personal attack.

This is unfair and appreciation, that is very much as they gave you. I'm as well with fair. I'm as well with fair. Please, as well with in the purview of my question. If I may.

If I may. You're almost time. He's. Can I reclaim some additional time? I'm going to give you some extra time.

Go ahead. It's our job to make sure the law is being followed. It is literally the obligation of this Congress. I read to you a provision of our own law of war, manual, and all I want you to say is what the provision says.

That it is prohibited. It is prohibited. This is the title. This is what the title says. To declare that no quarter be given.

I will follow the law to the T and expect everyone to do the same. This is extremely disappointing. Our service members deserve far better than this. I yield back. Demonio's back.

I want to make clear. You know, while you have Heggsith forcing out and having people like Donna you quit and

again depriving us of kind of the critical military leadership during these deeply uncertain

times. It seems like it would fall right into the hands of like Putin and people who wish the United States ill. You have Pete Heggsith out there, turning the press conference room in the Pentagon into a skiff, a sensitive compartment and information facility in order to ban the press.

This is what little, weak, pathetic losers like Pete is, is how they behave. And it's really sad to see. Well, there you have it. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Thanks for watching.

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