“A PROXY”: Cully Stimson Says Hegseth Impeachment Push Aims to Politically Hurt Trump

Joining me now is former Navy JAG officer and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, Cully Stimson. Thank you for being with us here today. Give me your analysis, the pros, the cons, the benefit, the cost of this impeachment effort against Secretary of War Hegseth. I think the impeachment effort, which failed this time but may not fail in the next Congress, is a proxy, an attempt to politically hurt President Trump. They're still debating among themselves whether they want to go down the road and try to impeach President Trump for a third time. Whether or not they have the votes in the Senate, the two-thirds vote needed to get rid of him, is questionable. So they're going after underlings like Pete Hegseth. And as Dave Warrington said in the previous segment with Martha, Dave was the White House counsel, That's all. Pete Hegseth is following the lawful orders of the Commander-in-Chief. If you have a problem with the Commander-in-Chief, go after him. So this is a proxy battle, and it's serious. It would seem to me, Cully, that this is also incredibly dangerous. If you start injecting political acts into the chain of command, why stop at the Secretary of War? In fact, we heard that from one of our Democrat representatives, that anybody along in the chain of command could be punished for following the orders of their superior. Hegseth answers to Trump. Colonels answer to their superiors, should we believe from Democrats that every step of the military chain of command should be subjected to the impeachment process from the majority party in Congress? Somebody needs to inform that lady who made that ignorant statement that that is absurd. People in the military like me and like other shipmates who I serve with and Marines and and Air Force and Army folks. Assume that orders are lawful and they carry them out to the best of their ability and all of those orders come through a chain of command and the chain of command starts at the top, goes through the secretary of war, goes through the chairman's legal and so when they're carrying out kinetic strikes, there's an assumption that these orders are lawful and if you don't think it's lawful, you can step back and not do it at all. The expense of potentially getting court-martialed for not following a lawful direct order. So she's ignorant. And of course they're not going to impeach people on active duty. The American people won't put up with it. Yeah, which would be a process that would absolutely destroy the United States military and, by extension, the national security of the United States, all at the whims and the personal vendettas of a few Democrats. Cully Stimson, great to have you on the show. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News latest on YouTube and catch full shows streaming now on Fox One.