Nadene Goldfoot
There are a total of 535 Members of Congress. 100 serve in the U.S. Senate and 435 serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms and are considered for reelection every even year.
One of many of the United State's 435 Representatives, a Democrat of the 5th district in New York, was interviewed by ABC today and said something so brilliant that I have to share it. He is one of their "characters,' I would say, coming with quite a bad reputation to be asked about judging if a person should be fired or not. Gregory Weldon Meeks (born September 25, 1953) age 71, denies his reputation, but the fact is that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) named Meeks one of the most corrupt members of Congress in 2011. It was subsequently reported that his continuing ethical and criminal probes would cause his premature exit from Congress.
He had walked out on Netanyahu's speech. After acting against Netanyahu, he had the chutzpa to get his picture taken with him: Meeks with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, November 12, 2023. Had the tides changed? Or more like following the majority, like so many do.
I'm not proud of or happy with him as back on March 3, 2015, Meeks participated with fellow Democrats in a boycott of the speech delivered by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Congress. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel used one of the most prominent platforms in the world on Tuesday to warn against what he called a “bad deal” being negotiated with Iran to freeze its nuclear program, bringing to a culmination a drama that has roiled Israeli-American relations for weeks. That may have been the one in the UN where all the Democrats walked out when Netanyahu spoke and showed the graph about how near Iran was to having nuclear power.
ABC's interview was about the shocking email telling of the plans of attacking Yemen by the USA that inadvertently or not was shared with a journalist. He was asked if the man responsible should be fired or not.
He responded with something like, They cannot read! Of course, he continued, "this was information not even shared with congress members. Yes, he should be fired ! Democratic Congressman Gregory Meeks tells Wolf Blitzer why he says Trump administration officials "absolutely lied" to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees about the leaked Signal chat messages. Musk’s Pentagon meeting is a ‘national security risk,’ wrote MSNBC. Hegseth bragged about restoring meritocracy and competence to the Pentagon. In less than 100 days, he has done the opposite. It is time for Congress to investigate why the defense secretary of the world’s most powerful military risked the lives of our U.S. service members, all for the convenience of a group chat.
The Trump administration is under scrutiny after The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg said he was inadvertently added to a Signal group chat that included top national security officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in which the officials discussed plans for a U.S. attack on Houthis in Yemen.
Meeks hasn't always done things right, and for that, was criticized, but it wasn't like exposing secrets that could cause our soldiers any deaths. He was for firing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Signal was not an approved email process. A lawsuit -- "which names Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the National Archives as defendants -- asked a federal judge to declare the use of Signal unlawful and order the cabinet members to preserve the records immediately, as Signal's deleting of messages violates governmental record-keeping requirements."
"The use of the Signal group chat was revealed Monday by The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who said he was inadvertently added to the chat as top national security officials, including Hegseth and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, were discussing the military operation."
Who is Pete Hegseth? Hegseth, 44, is mostly known for his eight years on Fox News where he is a commentator for major programs and the host of multiple ongoing series. Per his website biography, which describes him as a "husband, father, patriot and a Christian," Hegseth served as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard, serving in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay. Hegseth also served as CEO for Concerned Veterans for America. He and his family have been living in Tennessee.
The secretary of defense is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule, thus earning a salary of US$246,400, as of October 2024. I hope that's not a monthly salary. Considering what it costs to live in assisted living, I wouldn't be surprised at anything!
In the past, Trump has found firing easy, as he had a show on TV called The Apprentice that judged the business skills of a group of contestants. It ran in various formats across fifteen seasons on NBC from 2004 to 2017. "The Ultimate Job Interview", seven of the show's seasons featured aspiring, but otherwise unknown, businesspeople who would vie for the show's prize, a one-year $250,000 starting contract to promote one of Donald Trump's properties.
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Update: 3/27/25 6:39pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRf1cdw4IAY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense
https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-holds-hearing-administrations-signal-app/story?id=120229350
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