‘Slit some throats’: Ron DeSantis has already put forth a Pentagon agenda
What would a Defense Department run by Gov. Ron DeSantis look like?
The once-hypothetical question became a more concrete consideration this week, amid concerns about the ability of Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth to be confirmed.
While DeSantis, who was a Navy JAG lawyer in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay during the war on terror, may have never eyed becoming Defense Secretary in a Donald Trump administration until this week, as a presidential candidate he outlined what his own Secretary of Defense would do.
In July 2023, he told Real America’s Voice that the person he picks to run the Pentagon would have to be prepared to “slit some throats” and be “very firm, very strong” in imposing...
