LET’S GO: Trump Transition Team Reportedly Drawing Up List of Deceitful Military Officers for Court-Martial Consideration – Treason Charges Potentially on the Table

The Trump transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officers who were directly involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and exploring whether they could be court-martialed for their involvement, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the plan.

Officials working on the transition are considering creating a commission to investigate the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, including gathering information about who was directly involved in the decision-making for the military, how it was carried out, and whether the military leaders could be eligible for charges as serious as treason, the U.S. official and person with knowledge of the plan said.

“They’re taking it very seriously,” the person with knowledge of the plan said.

NBC further reports that Matt Flynn, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics and global threats, is helping lead the project. It’s also likely that Trump Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth will become involved, assuming the Senate confirms him. 

Hegseth has vociferously blasted the withdrawal on multiple occasions. As NBC notes, he called for the generals involved in the Afghanistan debacle to be fired while demanding a radical overhaul of the Pentagon.

“The next president of the United States needs to radically overhaul Pentagon senior leadership to make us ready to defend our nation and defeat our enemies, Hegseth wrote in his book “The War on Warriors.” “Lots of people need to be fired. The debacle in Afghanistan, of course, is the most glaring example.”

“These generals lied. They mismanaged. They violated their oath. They failed. They disgraced our troops, and our nation. They got people killed, unnecessarily,” he added. “And, to this moment, they keep their jobs. Worse, they continue to actively erode our military and its values — by capitulating to civilians with radical agendas. They are an embarrassment, with stars still on their shoulders.”

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