Conservative Columnist Calls Pete Hegseth's All-Hands Meeting 'Bizarre and Disturbing'

As Twitchy reported earlier, the Washington Post said that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was "sowing alarm" by calling a meeting of hundreds of top generals and admirals for next week. Ironically, WaPo ended its post about the meeting with the promise of "Here's what we know." You don't know anything. All of the leakers you used to depend upon have had their security clearances yanked.

Check out all of the speculation in the Washington Post's exclusive scoop:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year.
The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter. It was issued earlier this week, against the backdrop of a potential government shutdown, and as Hegseth’s overtly political moves have deepened a sense of distress among his opponents who fear that he is erasing the Defense Department’s status as a nonpartisan institution.
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None of the people who spoke with The Post could recall a defense secretary ever ordering so many of the military’s generals and admirals to assemble like this. Several said it raised security concerns.

Will President Trump be there? They don't know.

Quin Hilley is the "veteran conservative columnist" for The Advocate, and he says this rare, urgent meeting is "bizarre and disturbing." What's disturbing is that it's so rare for the top military brass to meet in person with their boss.

Conservative Columnist Calls Pete Hegseth's All-Hands Meeting 'Bizarre and Disturbing'

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