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The Tucker Carlson Show

The Pentagon Didn’t Fire Dan Caldwell Over Leaks. They Fired Him for Opposing War With Iran.

The Tucker Carlson Show

Tucker Carlson Network

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4.58.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Dan Caldwell was one of the strongest voices at the Pentagon opposing war with Iran. Then he was falsely accused of leaking classified documents and fired. Paid partnerships with: Beam: Get 47% off for a limited time using the code TUCKER at https://ShopBeam.com/Tucker Hallow prayer app: Get 3 months free at https://Hallow.com/Tucker PureTalk: Go to https://PureTalk.com/Tucker to make the switch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3

Dan Caldwell is a Marine Corps veteran who wound up until three days ago advising the Secretary

0:36.7

Defense Pete Hegeseth on military

0:39.7

policy. He was one of the strongest voices in the U.S. government and the Trump administration

0:44.7

against the war with Iran. And his rationale was simple. It's not in America's interest,

0:50.5

and many Americans will die and billions will be spent on a war we don't need to

0:55.6

fight. And as someone who fought in Iraq, he was able to take that case to the principles with

1:00.5

some force. Then three days ago, he was fired from the Pentagon. But not for his views on Iran,

1:07.8

no. Dan Caldwell was fired because, reporters are told off the record,

1:12.4

he had leaked classified documents to the media. But what were these classified documents exactly?

1:18.8

Well, no one at the Pentagon could know the answer to that because Dan Caldwell's phone was never

1:24.1

examined, nor was he given a polygraph. So actually, beneath the headlines,

1:29.5

was nothing other than a false accusation. Was Dan Caldwell fired because he opposed the push

1:36.0

to war with Iran? You decide. Here's Dan Caldwell. So there is an enormous amount of pressure

1:43.4

on this administration to participate in military action against Iran.

1:48.6

And the president's position has been, I think, really clear for a long time, which is we don't want Iran to get nuclear weapons.

1:54.8

That's bad for everybody.

1:56.3

Yes.

1:57.5

He sincerely believes that.

1:59.0

He's against proliferation.

2:00.4

He's very concerned about nuclear weapons in general, I think.

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