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Top military officers fired by Pete Hegseth

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🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

But in the meantime, I wanted to discuss something that Jerry might be able to provide a little insight on a round of surprise firings coming out of the war department.

0:10.3

Not only just, you know, regular military members, but generals, chaplains, army chaplains, getting fired so many that the Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth doesn't even claim to know how many he's fired. How many generals and admirals have you fired? I don't know the exact number. You don't know the number. It's eight. Can you explain why any of them were fired? Like just explain why was the Army Jag fired? Why did you fire him?

0:37.8

They all serve at the pleasure of the president. I think... No, I'm just asking you why. General Kane is a great example. I'm just asking you why. You probably learned to Princeton what why means. Why did you fire him? Wow. They serve at the pleasure of the president. Why? Why did you fire him? Each and every of those... You can't explain why you fired any of them. Gentlemen, time's time's

0:53.8

A good question

0:55.7

For another time

0:57.2

What do you mean you don't know? You don't know how many people you fired? You can count on them in your two hands. You claim to not know. That's either a dereliction of duty or outright dishonesty, Jerry. He definitely knows why they were fired. More than likely, anybody fired from that stature.

1:13.1

We're talking about generals and above.

1:14.2

First of all, you do serve some needs of the military.

1:17.1

Technically, you can't get out.

1:18.9

So you do have to be relieved of your position.

1:21.1

But more than likely, just knowing the political nature,

1:24.6

you disagreed what some of the president said.

1:27.1

Completely simple. Maybe they're

1:28.6

disagreeing with the military strategy in Iran. Could be a number of anything. Perhaps. But that's what

1:33.8

gets you fired, unfortunately. Or some of the crazy claims that the Department of War Secretary

1:39.5

Pete Hegseth has made, including saying that the soldiers are fighting for Jesus. Now, I'm an atheist,

1:47.5

but I remember reading the Bible somewhere where Jesus said that if you live by the sword,

1:52.0

you die by the sword. Not sure he'd be advocating for war there, but this was a retired general

1:59.5

speaking about one of the firings, including the

2:02.6

Army chaplain getting given the boot by the old Secretary of War.

2:07.1

General George, as the chief of staff of the Air Force, is well loved by soldiers across the

2:12.2

board.

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