Dear Senator McCormick,
Your vote essentially put Pete Hegseth in charge of the Department of Defense….Despite his proven traits as a drunk and philanderer. Republican senators Collins, Murkowski, and even McConnell voted no…but not you, despite your West Point education and military service.
Since then he’s “distinguished” himself on Signal chats in which he shared attack information with his wife, among others, and his lies about that episode (and who knows what else). Your vote gave Republican senators 50 votes, setting up the VP to cast the deciding vote.
Now he has acted to strip your colleague, Mark Kelly, another decorated combat veteran and Space Shuttle mission leader, of his rank and retirement pay all because he stated a simple fact – that members of the military are not only allowed to not obey illegal orders, but duty-bound to do so.
I suspect that military leaders may have taught you that at West Point, where I, among other taxpayers, funded your education.
YOU NEED TO STAND UP FOR YOUR FELLOW SENATOR AND FELLOW VETERAN. If you don’t speak up, I can only infer that you are “just fine” with Hegseth’s obvious attempt to show everyone in the military what will happen to them if they cross him.
That is not America, at least not the America II knew prior to Donald Trump and his criminal gang.
By Kevin McDonald
