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If in his statement, Justin Fulcher assured that he had planned to work only six months for the United States government, his resignation echoes the departures of many other advisers before him. In April, two other HegSeth, Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick advisers were removed from their functions. They were even escorted outside the Pentagon offices.
Some time later, it was Colin Carroll, chief of staff to the defendant in La Défense, who was dismissed. He also testified to the paranoid atmosphere that reigned within the department because of the scandals of information leaks which shaken Hegseth. “”He was very concentrated on leaks, and I think it absorbed the team a little. If you look at a circular diagram of the secretary’s day, at this stage, 50 % of it is probably devoted to a leak investigation “, he explained. Confirming these remarks, CNN claims that Hegseth would have become “completely paranoid” and would now trust his very intimate circle. “”Hegseth’s most reliable advisers are now his wife, lawyer and subordinate military assistant, who could soon be appointed his new chief of staff“Explains CNN.
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The defense secretary also separated from his chief of staff, Joe Kasper. And finally John Ullyot, a former spokesperson for the Pentagon, also left the department. He had strongly criticized Pete Hegseth, calling him “ incompetent“. “It’s been a month since the Pentagon is plunged into total chaos. Leaves of operational plans sensitive to massive layoffs, dysfunctions now constitute a major distraction for the president [Trump]which deserves better from his senior direction. President Donald Trump has a solid assessment of his officials. Therefore, it is difficult to see the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, stay at his post for a long time“, he also writes in the columns of Politico. “Overnight [des licenciements]officials of the Ministry of Defense working for HegSeth tried to defame anonymously advisers to journalists, saying that they had been dismissed for having disclosed sensitive information within the framework of an ordered investigation earlier this month [avril]. However, none of this is true “, he adds. “”Even the fervent supporters of the secretary as I must admit: last month was a real collapse in the Pentagon – and this becomes a real problem for the administration. “
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On X, Justin Fulcher thanked the defense secretary: “As expected, I accomplished 6 months of service in the government of my country. […] I could not have accomplished anything without the energetic leadership of Minister Hegseth or the continuing confidence of President Trump in our team.“For its part the Defense Ministry said”Thanks Justin Fulcher for his work in the service of President Trump and Secretary Hegseth. We wish him full success in his future projects“.
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But Fulcher’s departure would actually be linked to controversy in June. He would have admitted to the head of cabinet of Hegseth at the time, Joe Kasper, and to the personal lawyer of Hegseth, Tim Parlatore, to be aware and have evidence of telephone monitoring carried out without mandate by the National Security Agency (NSA) in order to identify the authors of the leaks. He would then have proposed to share his alleged evidence if he could participate in the investigation. But faced with Pentagon officials, he would have presented no significant evidence, reveals the Guardian. But several advisers from Donald Trump would have been informed of these pseudo-listening and allegedly assumed that these constituted evidence justifying the dismissals of the previous advisers. Fulcher denied being at the origin of this controversy. “”I have never contacted Parlatore, Kasper or anyone to provide him with ‘surveillance evidence’ and I did not ask to participate in an investigation for this reason or for any other reason“He says.
