You might remember former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall (under Biden) who was stripped of his classified security clearance following an investigation which revealed him as the source of leaks surrounding Air Force One and President Trump’s security detail {GO DEEP}.
Today, ABC This Week with Martha Raddatz called upon Kendall to frame their latest attack against President Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth. Mr Kendall expressed his disappointment that “senior military official and leaders” are taking orders from the Commander in Chief, President Trump, without upholding an expectation to defy the constitutional civilian leadership structure.
On one hand the disgraced former officer admits it is not the role of the military to consider politics; however, on the other hand he claims they have a responsibility to listen only when Democrat politicians are in power. Failing to adhere to this standard weakens the ability of the military to conduct unilateral operations outside the structures of American government. This, Kendall claims, is a serious problem.
Kendall points the finger at Secretary Pete Hegseth who has removed or downgraded military officers who believe they have more power than the elected President of the United States. Essentially, Frank Kendall advocates for the Mark Milley approach to the military system, where uniformed flag officers control policy irrespective of who is in the White House. Kendall believes if the Generals were in charge, the Iran conflict would never happen.
Eisenhower warned against people like Frank Kendall. WATCH:
Eisenhower warned – Kennedy Tried – Trump is doing.
Indeed.
Crackerjack
Gives new meaning to warpaint doesn’t?
There was never an actor like that one … the perfect drill sergeant. No one else even came close.
Because R. Lee Ermey was a real-life U.S. Marine drill instructor (Staff Sergeant) and Vietnam War veteran.
Ermey was hired on the set to advise military behavor. The star quit because there was no way to out do Ermey’s demonstrations.
But you’re offended in Mandarin.
And that’s the probrem.
Would those be politicized participation trophies? They certainly aren’t competence based. Nor are they based in loyalty to the United States. Mealy Milley learned nothing From General Eisenhower. Eisenhower was a winner. Milley was, and always will be, a loser of immense proportion!
And don’t forget “traitor” inasmuch as he actually called his Chinese Communist Party counterpart to inform him “not to worry” as he (Milley) would call immediately in order to tip off the CCP should President Trump ever decide to make a military move against China.
This is like the ridiculous North Korean generals
Truman FIRED MacArthur for insubordination over his lunatic NUKES vs RED China and his idiot actions which left UN Forces exposed to near disaster when the CCP intervened in Korea.
There were more than a few vets who served under MacArthur in WWII and Korea who are not big fans of his. I met them and spoke with them. Dougie was not he hyped himself up to be as a war time commander.
I rather have MacArthur than this limp wristed Frank Kendall
I had a relative who was a dedicated Marine and saw active duty in Korea during the “conflict”. I believe that he strongly felt that MacArthur was correct about preventing the growth of the chinese military.
Our History shows the results of Truman’s decision. If nukes were used on red China his idiotic actions which left (as history has shown laughable,rapist) Un forces wouldn’t been exposed to CCP forces because wouldn’t have existed because they would have been nuked. The same way if President Regan’s order to bomb the Muslim leadership in the Baal valley after the bombing of the marine barracks we wouldn’t have a lot of the problems we have today with them. And by the way I have never understood how a Secretary of State can countermand a President. This is completely documented by the admiral, the captain, and the pilot’s who had full bomb loads and were within seconds of launch. It easy to have an option myself included.
Mr. Schwarz, I would like to understand what you are trying to say, but it is beyond me.
Unfortunately you don’t recognize that opinions are not facts.
Fact Truman did not eliminate the CCP with nuclear weapons and the Korean War played out as it did and we’ve lived with the consequences of that decision ever since. Was Truman’s decision correct is a matter of opinion not fact.
Fact Regan made the decision to eliminate the leadership of the Muslims Terrorists in the valley of Baal and was overruled by the Secretary of State. And we’ve lived with result of that decision ever since. Was McNamara’s decision to overrule the President correct is a matter of opinion. The fact that he did is not in dispute.
Fact not counting the Korean War U.N. peacekeeping forces have been 100% ineffective and have committed innumerable atrocities and rapes.
I know it is the middle of the night, but I have spent a least 10 minutes trying to figure out what you are saying. I honestly would like to understand you, but I am baffled. I am not familiar with that time in history.
Truman FIRED MacArthur for insubordination over his lunatic NUKES vs RED China stance? MacArthur was FIRED over Truman’s lunatic NUKES vs RED China position.
Whose idiot actions left UN forces exposed to near disaster when the CCP intervened in Korea?
It was MacArthur who deployed the Marines on the right and 8th Army on the left with mountains in between that left both wings were out of contact with each other leaving the Chinese free to maneuver in between them, and right up on both of them, so artillery and tactical air weren’t able to be brought to bear readily in their defense. It was also plain the entire force could be cutoff from withdrawal by sea.
A nuclear weapon deployed would have wiped out the CCP forces.
A long time ago it was explained to me in raw political terms, not military strategy;
MacArthur wanted Patton gone because he was afraid he was after his job.
Eisenhower wanted MacArthur gone because he was afraid he was after his job.
Truman didn’t fire Eisenhower, who was after his job and got it.
Food for thought.
I am not a big fan of Eisenhower. He was an idiot in many ways, like so many of his naive and corrupt generation. His warning was akin to “Guys! Me and my buds set up a voracious national security state. It’s going to destroy you. Be ready for that.”
Thanks for nothing, Eisenhower and the rest of his generation (excepting MacArthur and the other right wingers). The institutional architecture of the Cold War could have been set up differently, but it was set up to serve internationalism and not to defend the American people.
Kendall & Raddatz. You couldn’t pick two people who are more eat up with TDS than those two.
“Plumb ate up with dumbass” is the phrase/vernacular I remember from working in Northeast Oklahoma decades ago.
TDS should be grandfathered into the original.
I never watch anything on abc, seebs, nor nbc anymore, and, IMESHO, programs like This Weak have no value except to understand what the ignorant media is trying to promulgate.
Still waiting for some big ass hammer to be dropped on the head of these turncoats….and their enablers.
I’d be happy with trials for treason, followed by the customary punishment.
At this point I would be happy for ANY trials for the army of traitor that strut around Washington DC.
Also waiting for investigations into all the foreign judges who write Stays for our Presidential Orders.
If they are not citizens, deport them!
If they continuously flout the Constitution or Supreme Court, impeach them!
It’s time for Nationalization and Banishment Tribunals. Nationalize then abolish enemy corporations. (Don’t keep them under government control, but end their corporate existence.) Remove citizenship from enemies within who have paperwork.
We don’t have to accept people living within our civilization who are in a permanent state of existential war against us.
Semi-related: Iraqi Kurds are attacking Iran on our behalf.
Useless generals wouldn’t have made that happen
And the Yeman army is attacking the Houthis while the Lebanese army is peaceably taking back their land from both Hezbollah and Israel. President Trump is changing the world order for the better.
Ukraine.
FIFY.
Mr Kendall expressed his disappointment that “senior military official and leaders” are taking orders from the Commander in Chief, President Trump, without upholding an expectation to “defy the constitutional civilian leadership structure.”
It has been a long time since I served but when did that part in quotes become the rule?
Good thing he is out.
Never met the man. Don’t know much about him, but it sounds like there’s good reason for his official title to always include the word: former.
And “disgraced”….
Disgusting. How can he lecture anyone about acting “morally, ethically and legally” when he leaks classified information? Taking away his security clearance is not enough punishment for this pompous turd of a man.
My father must be rolling in his grave at Arlington.
News Nation had John Bolton on as an ‘expert’ after pleading guilty to violating the Espionage Act. I couldn’t believe it and switched the channel to never watch again.
John Bolton?
Isn’t he supposed to be in prison?
0.o
That’s funny, in a dark way.
Apparently, Mr. Kendall has forgotten who he works for.
And, that the purpose of the DOW is to kill people and break things at the behest of the President.
Generals do not make policy. They follow orders. Else they get kicked out of service for insubordination.
Serving means having no ideology except executing lawful orders from Superiors.
The tool does not swing the hammer.
This guy is disgraceful. He should be ashamed, but of course, as a democrat, that would never happen. As we see, he doubles down.
Spit Spit Spit. Treasonous activity has run amuck. Milley first then the rest of the congo line. Suffocating reprobates.
Did you know Frank Kendall’s name annagramed is PRICK! Who knew🤷♀️
I thought Seven Days in May was fiction, not a how-to manual.
One heck of a movie, and one everyone should watch at least once.
Especially now.
Burt Lancaster as the treasonous, usurper General.
Kirk Douglas as his attaché.
Frederick March as the President.
Super screenplay by Rod Serling.
Edge of the seat stuff.
And in the bowels of the Pentagon today, probably not “just a movie”.
The trailer for those who have never seen it and who may be interested.
Betsy: Going to watch it again right now. Probably the 5th time but the next time my youngest son comes over that’ll be the sixth!
It never gets old, Steve. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve watched it, each time new again. And as the times change and darken, with new eyes as well. It will be interesting for you to get your son’s reaction 👍🏻
One of several H-Bomb, WW3 movies of 1964. Failsafe & Dr. Strangelove; Good movies, yes, but the subliminal message was against Goldwater in ‘64.
The Democrats were “all-in” painting Goldwater as the man who would start WW3. Hollywood was helping.
I remember Failsafe, the ending of which greatly disturbed me at my younger age (and as I remember it per your comment, even now…how quickly events/misunderstandings can erupt to the point of no return), not so much Dr Strangelove. And yes, Hollywood was coopted to deliver messages, subliminal or otherwise.
And who can forget these other greats, The Manchurian Candidate and On the Beach.
It’s never just a movie
Ava Gardner as Gen. Scott’s jilted mistress.
After watching the trailer I get the feeling it was a foreshadowing of future reality, kind of like I felt and still do feel after reading Orwell’s 1984.
It’s just history.
Arrogant human beings have done tons of stupid sh*t through the centuries…..
I only remember vague bits and pieces from long ago.
Will attempt a refresher course immediately.
The book is good, too.
The book (1962) allegedly scared the s* out of President Kennedy.
Typical DC RAT. Same talking points as those 6 idiots. Senator Kelly was one..
T for TREASON
Once weapons were manufactured to fight wars.
Now wars are manufactured to sell weapons.
Why would any media interview a corrupt military national security leader?
And, as to Kendall…good gosh. So glad he is gone. He was absolutely part of the corrupt deep state problem.
Didn’t care when Obama fired top military leaders to align with his political policy….
didn’t care when Biden fired military personnel who refused covid vax due to religious objections….
didn’t care when DEI was prioritized over competence…
Didn’t care when Gen Milley said he would leak intel to China if he didn’t like what Trump Adm was doing…
And so on on so on….but somehow thinks military should revolt if they don’t like Trump’s lawful orders.
“ Why would any media interview a corrupt military national security leader?”
Cmon that’s easy.
A. He despises President Trump
B. He advocates defying President Trump
C. It’s ABC, one of the worst corrupt globalist-aligned MSM networks.
It would be very newsworthy if ABC didn’t interview an anti Trump character or didnt try to trip up a pro-Trump guest.
Always be communist.
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Great takeaway is that DOW is NOT rejecting or backbiting PDJT’s orders or policies. This shithead traitor is just clawing at the bottom of a very deep well. He’ll never have another position of any significance after his traitorous leaks and security clearance revocation. Prbly can’t even get a job in the Salvation Army.
In a word: Complicity.
Sedition another name for Kendall or Kendall another name for skunk.
Nice try IC.
In your ear IC.
The Secretary of War DOES report to the Commander-in-Chief! It’s why you were fired!
Copied from AI
Understanding Article 90 of the UCMJ
Definition of the Offense
Disobeying the Commander in Chief falls under Article 90 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). This article specifically addresses the willful disobedience of a superior commissioned officer, which includes the President of the United States, who serves as the Commander in Chief of the armed forces.
Potential Consequences
Violating Article 90 can lead to severe repercussions for military personnel. The consequences may include:
Courts-Martial: Service members may face a court-martial, which is a military trial for offenses under the UCMJ.
Penalties: Possible penalties for a conviction can include:
Confinement
Reduction in rank
Forfeiture of pay
……….
The MPs should be hauling this guy to the brig. He is being seditious right on national tv.
The voters and the American people are in charge of the direction our country takes and we voted for no more wars. That’s what we were promised. Now it’s this kinda stuff while the deepstate perfects their stranglehold.
Ike was right.
Ike was the president when I was a kid.
Same here.
McCarthy was right.
As a General and a President, Eisenhower had first hand knowledge of what he spoke.
It wasn’t conjecture or academic theoretical projection.
There have been only a few Presidents who first served as Generals. Eisenhower very clearly saw both the military and the industrial/political sides, having been in supreme command of both.
Bush, Cheney, Brennan, Bush again, McCain – what do these people all have in common?
“I couldn’t serve this administration.” Truth. But he is a liar. I seem to remember Obama getting rid of 300 generals, or officers. Whatever. They pulled this guy out of mothballs. What won’t the deep state attack? Hard to listen to people of this ilk.
Not sure on the total number of generals, but it in the end it amounted to over a 1000 commanding officers/upper positions. At least that was what reported at the time.
It was also said that the litmus test given to weed out those who were eliminated a/o forced to take early retirement… “would you comply with shooting American citizens if given the order?” Those who said “No,” had to go.
Most didn’t want to believe it at the time. Given what we know now– I do not doubt it for a second.
As as I know (which is not much), Dr. Michael Savage was the only one sounding the alarm concerning bho’s purge on his radio show. Like Paul Craig Roberts, he is considered persona non grata by the MSM and is blacklisted from any “guest appearances”. Therefore, MSM scrapes the sludge at the bottom of the barrel for guest appearances to promulgate their agenda.
And remember that Michael Savage was the one who brought us this profound phrase:
“Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder”
As well as a nation consisting of language, BORDERS, & culture.
These Oath Breaking POS like Kendall and Miley should have seen much worse then just taking a security clearance from them.
Miley contacting the CCP and subversive activities that Miley took should have cleared a room at Leavenworth.
It sounds like the establishment are making the case that there is an insurrection against what the American people voted for; something that America needs to put down.
Pentagon leaks: polygraphs aren’t enough
Leaks won’t stop until leakers face the death penalty.
Mike McDaniel | September 6, 2026
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/09/pentagon-leaks-polygraphs-aren-t-enough/
Frank should the first one in a long line for punishment.
Another hit against President Trump … I’ve lost count long ago. At this point, even if they had a legitimate beef I would discount it since all they do is try to tear down our patriotic president.
It might be different if they would ever acknowledge the good things he has done. I sometimes wonder if they will finally appreciate what we had after his term expires, since they will no longer get any mileage out of the continual berating.
Only in that they will call the next true choice of the people worse.
That is a systematic practice. Every evil Republican is worse than the last one.
No matter how evil the last one was, there is always something good about him to say in attacking the new one.
Even Nixon had good points. But only retroactively. And only to bash Reagan, Bush, Bush and Trump.
Nope. They still hate Reagan and express it whenever possible.
Classic sour grapes.
Martha Raddatz & Debbie Dingell sound just alike: whiny and not too bright
Martha is not just difficult to listen to. She’s impossible to watch. Is she the best fake news ABC can offer? I’ve seen Halloween masks of ghouls that would be more acceptable! I bet her producer is coaching her through her earpiece, “Okay, Martha, try to look like you’ve just swallowed a big glass of bacon grease!”
And they fired Jane Pauley because she was too “old.”
The internet media is doing exactly the same process that MSM has done.
I forsee a purge coming for those that are participating.
Anytime the propaganda calls for ‘former employees’ to inform the public of information,
you can expect a political slant.
I refuse to even believe the info they spew unless it can be confirmed by other sources.
I seem to remember that our glorious (shameful) leader president Obama fired some 650+ flag grade officers 07-10 sometimes including 06 colonel and navy captains. Replacing them with heroic (despicable) specimens (urine etc) like this.
A whiny, pampered, constitutionally illiterate prissy boy encouraging military leaders to defy civilian authority over the armed forces. I hope Hegseth keeps firing these dangerous, useless, secret-leaking fops.
‘Firing’ needs to start with a perp-walk.
Kendall is seeking to legitimize his shameful, illegal behavior by being ABC’s useful idiot.
I am confident that his bravado is sourced from Milley’s unpunished, treasonous actions.
Lock Frank Kendall in a room full of criminal illegal aliens and look the other way.
What a sanctimonious, self-important, blowhard!
Can’t sand those CIA Generals.
Commander-in-Chief Trump needs to immediately kick ABC out of the WH press pool, withhold any administration officials from any appearances.
ABC is aiding and abetting calls to sedition in the US military. That’s not just a seditious ex-general. That’s a major network using public airwaves, giving a large platform to call for elements of the US Armed Forces commit sedition against the nation’s CIC!!
There’s a whole lot more that PDJT could do, but that should be immediate. And if SCOTUS doesn’t see it that way PDJT can tell them try to enforce it. Other networks, even Fox screams “1st Amendment” all they want, it’s calls for sedition by the military against the nation’s military Commander-in-Chief.
PDJT can’t let that go without consequence!! Dangerous stuff! Media amplifying that can do grave damage. There’s a whole lotta Marxists in that military today. A whole lot.
The service academies have been serving up the same woke slop the universities have for the past 18-20 years. A very large percentage of the officer corps don’t find woke Marxism highly objectionable, many support it.
This ain’t the roaring Trump supporter Cadets and Midshipmen at football games military. The ass-clown former general is not speaking to a tiny number of like-mindeds in the services. And he knows it. And ABC knows it. Dangerous stuff.
It’s time to start television coverage of the military trials of guys like kendall..then the fauci’s and others… obama last
Go to YT and check out the comments supporting this traitor…Bots? Or just idiots???
Kendall would be a perfect apparatchik in the CCP. Obama replaced warriors with politicians. We are still close to losing the country.
Don’t they realize he just tried to sacrifice the White House Press Corp to get the President killed?
They complain because the President slipped away leaving them as targets,
But,
They try to make a hero of the betrayal that would have slaughtered the Press.
If the seditious Six were executed for their treason, bums like Kendall would not be getting interviewed on TV. You get what you tolerate.
Insufferable. And of course, when Jug Ears Hussein did his various purges, all was “okey doke” fine.
Pray, every day, honour, integrity, value, virtue, return of.
” Essentially, Frank Kendall advocates for the Mark Milley approach to the military system”
In other words, Kendall was secretly siding with the CCP just like Milley? Seems to be his stance. Typical radical, leftist Socialist overtaking a part of our military. No power, No control, No morals, No sense of honor. Did I just sum up your miserable existence Kendall?
The only people watching this on ABC already believe any and all anti-Trump propaganda. If it supports their view that Hegseth is a maniac then they might tune in.
“Eisenhower warned against people like Frank Kendall.”
You can dress them up in a nice suit and put them in front of a TV camera, but that does not hide the rot that is in side that manifests itself when they open their mouth and begin speaking to reveal the corruption inside.
a.k.a. “whitewashed tombs”
So the antifa $$$$ is gone, no riot money.
This is the next strategy…pull out failed, commie minded Democrats who will slander our President, Hegseth, on the fake news?
I’m thinking the slander campaigns on social media will be increasing also…closer to elections.
Can this guy be court marshalled and have his discharge modified to DIShonorable?
When military leadership goes against the President, it erodes the chain of command structure to the point of a potential coup. A military coup. It is essential for Hegseth to dispose of these traitors. We’re either a constitutional Republic built to last or go in the winds of history as another failed nation state.
Are we ever going to tire of WAR against someone for something? I’m 61 and our country has been at WAR for my entire existence, quite tiresome actually…..
Frank Kendall is joking when he says he’s apolitical! His duty is to follow orders, whether they come from the Commander in Chief or the Secretary of Defense. His implying or insinuating that Pres. Trump’s orders are immoral, unethical, or illegal is a debate that should only occur within himself, going public with these opinions is insubordination. He says he’s been in the Pentagon for 20 years, so he was there when Obama was ordering drone strikes on American citizens, without warrants or due process. Where was his outrage then, over targeted killings that were definitely illegal? What a clown, him and Mark Milley should get a room together at the No Tell Hotel…
I will accept Sundance’s summary of the interview. I can’t tolerate listening to the nonsense.
Honestly, who in the world listens to anything on ABC? Who is their viewership? (or CBS, or MSN, et. al.)
I can say that even people I like, if they start bashing President Trump, I just turn them off. I have had enough of TDS.
I have heard enough of it over the past 11 years that I now discount anything they have to say. Because of all their ranting and raving and nonsense, they now have zero credibility for anything they talk about. If they report something as “news” I feel the need to corroborate it with several other sources, and quite frankly, I have better things to do with my time than to fact check them on everything.
I wish everyone would JUST TURN THEM OFF.
He said he couldn’t serve this Administration. That is awesome!! But you can undermine this Administration with this garbage.
Not surprising that some networks have aligned to prove how ignorant, bigoted, and possessed that the Enemedia is in attempting to promulgate their failing liberal agenda of attacking conservative America. Not surprising that the manglement at the failing networks uses media clowns to promulgate their asinine commentary and losing positions.
BTW, is it just my observation, but are most liberal women either physically or emotionally ugly???