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Fired Insubordinate Officers Reveal Massive U.S. Military Resentment Against Elected Civilian Command

There is a cancer in America’s military ranks, and it must be expunged before it’s too late. That cancer lies in uniformed service members’ widespread rejection of the uniquely American concept of civilian control of the military and disregard for the absolute necessity that America’s military officers remain apolitical in the face of the constitutional will of the electorate.

Recent events reveal this cancer, and they include the relief for cause of Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield after she reportedly refused to hang photos of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on her headquarters’ customary “Chain of Command” board and reportedly told her subordinates in a town hall that she would “wait [the Trump administration] out” the next four years. They also include the relief for cause of Col. Sussanah Meyers, commander of the U.S. Space Force’s base in Greenland, after she openly questioned (to all of her subordinates via email) Vice President J.D. Vance’s official pronouncements regarding the United States, Greenland, and Denmark.

Since Trump’s inauguration, numerous other senior generals and admirals have been relieved by President Trump for various publicly unspecified reasons, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown; Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti; Adm. Linda Lee Fagan, the commandant of the Coast Guard; and Air Force Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command. Each of these four-star firings is publicly shrouded in a certain degree of mystery, but rumors abound that so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) played a part in one way or another.

Admittedly, a president firing his senior generals is not a new thing. Barack Obama fired his senior general in Afghanistan, Army Gen. Stan McChrystal, after a Rolling Stone article revealed derisive comments by McChrystal and his staff regarding Obama’s leadership. Harry S. Truman fired one of America’s most famous and revered military leaders, Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur, after MacArthur repeatedly disobeyed Truman’s orders regarding the Korean War. And Abraham Lincoln famously had no problem firing his senior Army generals in the heat of the Civil War. What made these firings so noteworthy, however, is that they were rare exceptions that proved the rule of America’s senior generals and admirals wholly respecting civilian control of the military.

What we see now is not Obama and McChrystal, Truman and MacArthur, or Lincoln and his failed generals. The widespread nature of the current problem looks and feels like something completely new in the American experience and appears to be pervasive across the force.

I am a retired U.S. Army colonel. My service record runs a typical gamut for an old colonel, with tours in tactical units (including service in Afghanistan and Iraq) interspersed with service at high-level military headquarters in and around Washington, D.C. Nowadays, I run an account on X with a little more than 200,000 followers. I offer commentary on political and social issues, with a particular emphasis on the military. As a result, I have many military followers, including some still on active duty. I offer active-duty service members a conduit to anonymously share disturbing military trends.

Since Trump’s inauguration, I have been flooded with reports of insubordination in the ranks toward Trump and Hegseth. Those reports range from fairly senior officers in the Pentagon showing open disrespect around the E-Ring coffee maker, all the way down to junior enlisted disrespecting their president and secretary of defense in the ship’s galley or the chow hall.

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Liberal media distorts immigration enforcement to attack Trump’s policies

Mainstream media outlets are scraping the bottom of the barrel in their attempts to portray the Trump administration’s enforcement of the Immigration and Nationality Act as racist and immoral. The corporate newspapers and the “Big News” online outlets are awash in sob stories about migrants who are now facing deportation because they broke American laws.

Every one of these articles suffers from two common flaws: They deliberately omit key facts and intentionally misrepresent the state of U.S. immigration law to create the impression that foreign lawbreakers are hapless victims of an unjust system.

One particularly egregious example is a piece recently published by The New York Times. Titled “‘Where’s Alex? A Beloved Caregiver Is Swept Up in Trump’s Green Card Crackdown,” the article tells the story of Luke, a severely autistic man from Falls Church, Virginia, and his caregiver Alfredo Orellana, a green card holder. Mr. Orellana has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and placed in deportation proceedings on the basis of a criminal conviction.

According to The Times, this is totally unjust because Mr. Orellana isn’t really a criminal, just a guy who made a small mistake while he was on drugs. Although the law says that “green card holders convicted of certain crimes can be deported,” The Times consulted unidentified legal experts who claim the “government has usually opted not to target those people unless they have committed particularly serious crimes.” Moreover, The Times claims the enforcement actions taking place are because “under Mr. Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has taken a sprawling view of who should be targeted for deportation.”

That narrative has a significant problem: It is utter, complete and total rubbish. Many criminal aliens were, in fact, given a pass by the Obama and Biden administrations. That wasn’t a policy decision; it was a willful, deliberate and patently unlawful refusal to comply with the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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Report Shows Network News’ Maximum Slant On Trump Tariffs

Stocks closed up Monday on Wall Street. You could almost hear the collective groan from the Trump-hating corporate media. 

As irresponsible as ever, the Pravda Press have pumped up their doom-and-gloom coverage of President Trump’s tariff policies to DEFCON 1. Per usual, the usual left-bending media suspects have used the tariff battles and the volatile markets as a cudgel to politically pound Trump with, churning “recession” chatter while all but ignoring positive news in the U.S. economy. 

A new report from media tracker NewsBusters shows just how slanted the coverage has been. 

‘Intensions Clear as Day’

On April 4, the day the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported hiring in March had surged by a stronger-than-expected 228,000 jobs, the broadcast networks over the 24-hour period devoted 62 times more coverage on the Trump tariffs and market declines, according to the report, exclusively provided to The Federalist. 

“Nobody’s faulting the media for covering an ongoing trade war or a dramatic dip in the stock market. But when they can’t even spare a full minute to cover an incredibly positive jobs report, they make their intentions clear as day,” Bill D’Agostino, Media Editor for NewsBusters and Senior Research Analyst for the Media Research Center’s News Analysis division, told The Federalist. 

The hyperbolic networks devoted 10 times more coverage to the tariff story than to last week’s report of declining consumer prices . While the Consumer Price Index dipped, led by lower prices at the pumps, ABC News had nothing to say about the aggregate CPI decline, NewsBusters found. The broadcast news network did air 16 seconds on slightly rising egg prices, according to the report.  

Corporate news outlets in general couldn’t help but drown the good news on inflation in worries over Trump tariffs.  

“U.S. consumer prices unexpectedly fell in March amid cheaper gasoline and used motor vehicles, but the benign inflation reading is unlikely to be sustained after President Donald Trump doubled down on tariffs on imported Chinese goods,” Reuters proclaimed in an April 10 story. 

Broadcast coverage of the tariffs between April 2 and April 11 totaled 422 minutes and 45 seconds — more than 7 hours-worth.  

Total tariff coverage by the three networks, according to NewsBusters’ review: 

› ABC: 148 minutes, 41 seconds

› CBS: 130 minutes, 5 seconds

› NBC: 143 minutes, 59 seconds

Meanwhile, the networks devoted a measly 45 seconds to the April 4 jobs report over the 24-hour period, compared to 46 minutes, 50 seconds of tariffs coverage. Total jobs report coverage by the three networks vs. tariff reporting:

› ABC: 14 seconds (vs 17 min 53 sec tariffs)

› CBS: 20 seconds (vs 12 min 7 sec tariffs)

› NBC: 11 seconds (vs 16 min 50 sec tariffs)

The networks spent a total of 173 seconds covering March’s Consumer Price Index decline over the 24-hour period beginning on April 10.  Meanwhile they, devoted nearly 31 minutes to tariff talk over the same period. 

Total CPI coverage by the three networks vs. tariff reporting:

› ABC: NONE (vs 11 min 54 sec tariffs)

› CBS: 9 sec (vs 13 min 28 sec tariffs)

› NBC: 165 sec (vs 5 min 27 sec tariffs)

D’Agostino asserts the flood of tariff coverage isn’t born out of a concern for the economy; it’s about damaging the Trump administration’s image. The song remains the same for an accomplice media that has spent the past decade trying to crush Trump and the MAGA movement. 

“Every news item we study, it’s always the same story. The corporate media are only ever on the hunt for bad news about the President,” the media analyst said. 

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The Truth About the Military Parade: It’s for the 250th Anniversary of the Army Not Trump’s Birthday

Once again, the media and Twitter pundits are misrepresenting President Trump.

They claim he wants a military parade in his honor, but the truth is, the event is meant to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army—it just happens to fall on his birthday.

Critics keep pointing out that Trump never served in the military. Ironically, neither did Biden, Obama, or Clinton, yet Democrats never questioned their right to serve as commander-in-chief.

Trump’s veteran status is irrelevant; he is the president, and as commander-in-chief, it is both logical and appropriate for him to preside over a major military anniversary parade.

Liberals have compared the proposed parade to military displays in Russia or North Korea—completely missing the point that allies like Britain, France, and others also hold large military parades or include the armed forces in major national celebrations.

They’re also complaining about the parade’s proposed budget, calling it wasteful—despite consistently opposing efforts to cut actual government waste. It’s telling that they only seem to care about spending when it involves honoring the military.

Where veterans should truly be outraged is in how the media, in their effort to attack Trump, are downplaying the significance of the Army’s 250th anniversary—as if this isn’t a major milestone, or as if the Army hasn’t done enough for this country to deserve recognition. That’s the real insult.

The idea for a parade first emerged in 2017 after President Trump attended France’s Bastille Day celebration and expressed admiration for their display of military strength.

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The FBI Knew All Along

You do not have to wade far into the recently declassified Crossfire Hurricane documents to be shocked.  I had only read three pages of the FBI’s December 19, 2016 interview with the DoJ’s Bruce Ohr before learning just how early in the game the FBI brass knew that the Steele dossier was worthless.

In the way of background, on July 31, 2016, the FBI launched its counterintelligence operation into the Trump campaign, codenamed “Crossfire Hurricane.”  FBI agent Peter Strzok was assigned to head it up.

If the goal was to cripple Trump regardless of the evidence, Strzok was the man for the job.  “Damn this feels momentous,” he texted his lover, FBI attorney Lisa Page, upon getting the assignment.  Two weeks later he explained to Page his motives.  “There’s no way [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” he texted her.  “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

Ohr played a curious role in the whole affair.  He served as unofficial DoJ contact with the notorious Christopher Steele, the author of the eponymous Steele dossier.  According to Ohr, the two met for breakfast on the same day the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane.  Steele wanted to discuss some “serious stuff” involving low-level Trump adviser Carter Page.

More interesting than what Steele claimed to know about Page is what Ohr already knew about the funding of the Steele dossier.  As Ohr told his FBI interviewer, Joe Pientka, Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS “hired Steele to dig up Trump’s connection to Russia.”  Complicating matters is that Ohr’s wife Nelli worked for Simpson.

Protecting Nellie, a Russian interpreter, Ohr claimed she was “hired to conduct open source research.”  He conceded, however, “Even though she did not know the goal of the project, she was able to surmise the purpose as the individuals were close to Trump.”

Ohr knew, too, that “Glenn Simpson was hired by a lawyer who does opposition research,” although he did not name the lawyer.

Steele, reported Ohr, “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the U.S. President.”  Ohr did not believe that Steele was “making up information.”  That said, he had little confidence in Steele’s sources.  Steele may have reported what he heard, but, said Ohr, “that doesn’t make that story true.”  Explained Ohr, “There are  always Russian conspiracy theories that come from the Kremlin.”

Steele and Ohr met again that September, close to the time reporter Michael Isikoff first broke the story of the Steele dossier.  In this meeting, an increasingly worried Steele fed Ohr what would prove to be bogus information about Trump’s relationship to Alfa Bank.  On September 23, 2016, Isikoff wrote a lengthy breakout article for Yahoo News based on a briefing by “multiple sources.”  Ohr was unsure whether Isikoff had met with Simpson or Steele or both.

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Trump Says “Out Of Control” CBS’ 60 Minutes Should “Lose License”

Late Sunday night, President Donald Trump unleashed a Truth Social bomb, accusing CBS’ 60 Minutes of routinely airing “derogatory and defamatory” stories about him — but said this weekend’s broadcast on the left-wing network “tops them all.”

“Almost every week, 60 Minutes, which is being sued for Billions of Dollars for the fraud they committed in the 2024 Presidential Election with their Interview of Failed Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris, mentions the name “TRUMP” in a derogatory and defamatory way, but this weekend’s “BROADCAST” tops them all,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. 

The president continued: “They did not one, but TWO, major stories on “TRUMP,” one having to do with Ukraine, which I say is a War that would never have happened if the 2020 Election had not been RIGGED, in other words, if I were president and, the other story was having to do with Greenland, casting our Country, as led by me, falsely, inaccurately, and fraudulently.”

Trump reiterated his ongoing $20 billion lawsuit against 60 Minutes over its “fraudulent, beyond recognition, reporting,” including allegations that it deceptively edited an interview with failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris ahead of last fall’s election.

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BlueAnon: Democrats in Full Panic Mode Over Absurd Conspiracy That Trump Will Declare Martial Law on April 20

The Left is melting down once again—and this time, it’s over a tinfoil-hat-level conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump is preparing to declare martial law on April 20.

The same people who spent years mocking “QAnon” are now pushing a full-blown BlueAnon fantasy of their own.

The source of this hysteria? None other than James Carville, the aging Democratic strategist who’s apparently desperate to stay relevant.

On a recent episode of Politics War Room, Carville was asked whether Trump was trying to provoke enough unrest to declare martial law and suspend the 2026 elections.

“You’re so correct to be concerned about this… It’s getting worse by the day. It is not going to stop getting worse. And I would be, we ought to be, on high, high alert.”

The left’s panic stems from a deliberate misreading of Trump’s January 20 executive order, which declared a national emergency at the southern border and directed the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to submit a report by April 20.

The report will assess the border crisis—created by years of Democrat open-border policies—and recommend whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 for enforcement. Nowhere does it mention “martial law,” but that hasn’t stopped the BlueAnon crowd from spinning dystopian fantasies.

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Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Leader’s Campaign Bankrolled By Dem Power Broker Tied To Chinese Intel Agency

Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu’s 2021 campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a fundraiser who is listed by a Chinese intelligence agency as an official, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

Gary Yu, the founder of Boston International Media Consulting, helped raise over $300,000 for Wu with the help of a Chinese civic association he leads. However, Yu — whose Chinese name is Yu Guoliang — is listed as an official by an agency of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), and also operates as a recruiter for the Chinese government, according to reports from the CCP, Chinese state media and civic associations led by Yu.

“The Communist Party’s UFWD never rests,” author and China expert Gordon Chang told the DCNF. “There is no ethnic Chinese official in America who is not targeted. It’s time for law enforcement to investigate the CCP’s ties to Gary Yu and Yu’s ties to Mayor Michelle Wu.”

Wu has risen to national prominence as a central figure in the Democratic resistance to Trump’s border and deportation policies. Wu recently defended her city’s refusal to cooperate with immigration officials during her March 19, 2025 “State of the City” address, during which she criticized “presidents who think they are kings,” prompting the White House to fire back the next day with a press release labeling Wu a “radical mayor” who “puts violent criminal illegal aliens first.”

“Wu’s ultra-leftism makes her the perfect candidate for CCP recruitment and capture,” Chang said. “Or do we have it backward? Is her ultra-leftism the result of CCP recruitment and capture? More than just the people of Boston would like to know.”

Wu’s office, Yu, and Boston International Media Consulting did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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Antifa-Linked Legal Group Trains Radicals Targeting Musk and Tesla

A legal group with connections to Antifa has been providing training and support to activists organizing protests against Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk, according to recent reports.

The Oregon-based Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) has been active in supporting left-wing demonstrations and legal defenses of Antifa-affiliated individuals.

The group has recently offered guidance to organizers of the “Tesla Takedown” movement, a nationwide anti-Tesla effort partly motivated by Musk’s connection to President Donald Trump.

CLDC Executive Director Lauren Regan participated in a virtual training session on March 19, warning activists to remain alert when protesting in certain areas of the country.

“It’s time to be strategic and effective, but it’s not time to be afraid or silenced,” Regan said during the training call.

“There are going to be some areas of the country that are very conservative and are going to be hard on dissidents or activists no matter what the timing, and then there are other places that are going to be less so.”

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Gov. Whitmer Endlessly Ridiculed After Embarrassing White House Stunt: ‘This Is So Much Worse’

Particularly loud critics of President Donald Trump, such as Gretchen Whitmer, might want to keep a low profile when visiting the White House.

But the way the Democratic Michigan governor recently attempted to shield her face from the media’s cameras was a masterclass is backfiring strategies.

The Daily Wire reported on the incident and the backlash it fueled:

Whitmer was at the White House to meet with President Donald Trump about relief funding for Michigan residents who had been devastated by recent ice storms and funding for a Detroit-area Air National Guard base — but instead of a private meeting with the president, she was ushered into an Oval Office full of reporters and cameras while the president was signing executive orders.

NYT photographer Eric Lee captured one shot of Whitmer as she literally hid her face from the cameras — and that photo top-lined a piece detailing the risks she runs as a Democratic governor who is seen daring to cooperate with President Trump.

The article’s headline read, “Whitmer Shows How Democrats Are Playing With Fire in Cozying Up to Trump” — and the sub-headline doubled down: “The Michigan governor’s awkward Oval Office appearance reflected how several Democratic state leaders are cultivating cordial but politically risky relationships with the president.”

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