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“No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?”
George Mason
No, no man is above justice, not even Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth equals Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (under President Lyndon Johnson) as one of the very worst defense secretaries America has ever seen. He is guilty of International War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. He is a mass murderer, liar, drunk, misogynist, racist and totally unfit for the office he holds. From the reports I read from military veterans, morale among our U.S. service personnel has never been lower than it is right now.
It is time to impeach Pete Hegseth.
And that is exactly what Congressman Thomas Massie is proposing to do.
From Politico:
Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie on Tuesday introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, an extraordinary attempt by members of the president’s own party to oust a Pentagon chief.
The articles are for high crimes and misdemeanors, including the war in Iran, the Trump administration’s boat strikes in the Caribbean and Hegseth’s alleged suppression of free speech in his fight with Democrats over their calls for troops to refuse illegal orders.
The nature of the resolution means the House will be forced to vote on it this week, setting up a politically complicated vote for Republicans right before the midterm elections.
A group of nine Democrats, led by Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), introduced an impeachment resolution in April against Hegseth. They accused him of prosecuting an unauthorized war in Iran, targeting civilians and mishandling classified information, among other charges. But Massie’s move is a first-of-its kind effort to go after a Cabinet member in the same party.
Thomas Massie is exactly the kind of congressman we need representing us in Washington. He is honest, courageous and loyal to the U.S. Constitution—even if it means bucking his own party. While the vast majority of congressmen and senators on Capitol Hill are preoccupied with taking bribes from Israel and the military-industrial complex and bowing to party bigwigs like the idolaters they are, Massie stands as a giant among pygmies.
With the GOP in the majority in the House of Representatives, it is unlikely that Massie’s articles of impeachment will survive a House vote; but it forces House members to put their vote on record. And Hegseth (along with Donald Trump) is on the wrong side of history, and each House member that votes against Hegseth’s impeachment will carry a tarnished congressional reputation for the rest of their life.
Breaking news yesterday: Politico reports:
Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday he is canceling planned Thursday votes and sending members home for a seven-week recess a day earlier than expected.
The decision lops another day off a preelection legislative schedule that Johnson had already truncated by two weeks. It also allows members to avoid having to take a vote on an impeachment resolution introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) targeting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, which would have hit the floor no later than Thursday under House rules.
The corruption of Mike Johnson and the GOP leadership is off the charts. They will lie, cheat, steal—and even kill—to ignore the will of the electorate and ram their pro-Zionist agenda down the throats of the American people.
As for Donald Trump, I was delighted to see a young man put these salient words on the record. His name is Jason Chukwuma:
Quoting Donald Trump: I'm an extremely stable genius. In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. I got more votes than any president in the history of our country. In the history of our country, right? Not even close. 75 million. Far more than Obama. Far more than anybody.
Jason Chukwuma: Of all the vices Donald Trump seems committed to practicing on a daily basis, it can be hard to single out any one of them as his worst. The bigotry, the cruelty, the lack of empathy, the greed, the vindictiveness, it can all blur together into one giant moral indictment.
But as a Christian, there's one sin that stands above all the others. Not necessarily in terms of its consequences for the world, but in terms of its spiritual significance for the inner Christian life. Something I'm sure Donald Trump knows nothing about, but that many of his supporters, especially his most fervent ones, profess to be experts on.
The sin I'm talking about is pride.
Pride isn't incidental to Donald Trump's public identity. It is his identity. The man's capacity for self-praise is endless, and so is his constant insistence that everyone around him participate in his self-worship service. He doesn't merely demand loyalty from those around him. He wants grown men and women, senators, governors, members of Congress, billionaires and cabinet officials to crawl before his ego. To beg, to grovel, to flatter, to praise him and humiliate themselves just to prove that they understand how special he is.
This was the principal character trait of the demonic Roman Caesars such as Caligula, Nero and Commodus. Trump’s heart is just as evil as theirs was.
You would think that a man with such a debased moral character would be soundly rejected by Christians who claim to follow a God so humble that, despite literally being God, He willingly chose to come to Earth as a human being. And not just any human being. He didn't come as a king, or an emperor, or a billionaire or a president. He chose to be born into a poor family from the middle of nowhere as a member of an oppressed ethnic minority, living under the domination of a ruthless empire. And that same empire would eventually torture and murder Him after He spent His earthly life tending to the sick, the poor and the vulnerable, while rebuking the rich, the proud and the powerful.
And yet somehow, many of the people who claim to follow this crucified Messiah seem to have no serious problem with Donald Trump's many sins, least of all his pride, which is a very big problem for them as people who claim to follow Jesus.
That's because Donald Trump as a person embodies the spiritual posture the Bible most consistently says God hates. Time and time again, Scripture singles out this specific sin as uniquely evil, uniquely dangerous and uniquely detestable to God. That's because humility, the opposite of pride, isn't just one Christian virtue among many. It's the foundation that makes all the other virtues, and the Christian life itself, possible. Without humility, you can't repent. Without humility, you can't confess sin. Without humility, you can't forgive; you can't receive correction; you can't serve; and you can't follow Jesus. Because following Jesus begins with the admission that you are not God. Pride makes repentance impossible because repentance begins with the one thing that a proud person refuses to say, “I was wrong.”
To repent is to take responsibility for your actions, to admit that you're not perfect, that you make mistakes, that, in other words, you're not God.
But instead, we have a president who openly admitted that he's never asked God for forgiveness for anything. And the Christians supporting him don't seem to find any serious problem with that.
Fortunately, God does.
After so many years of being exposed to Donald Trump's behavior, many of us have been conditioned to just accept it as normal. They say, “This is just Trump,” or “This is just politics now and the way things are.” But it's not normal. It has never been normal. And it will never be normal.
The longer we're told to adjust ourselves to the increasingly pathological, dysfunctional and openly wicked character of our political system, the more important it becomes to call this derangement what it is. Because Trump's narcissism isn't subtle or hidden; it's blatant, extreme, public and constant.
Think about the most obnoxious, self-centered person you have ever met in your life. The person whose need for validation was so exhausting, whose self-aggrandizement was so absurd and whose arrogance was so offensive that everyone around them felt uncomfortable merely by being in their presence. I'm willing to bet that for most of you, compared to Donald Trump, that person would come across as modest. That's what makes the indifference of his Christian supporters so jarring.
We're not talking about a faint trace of pride or a little bragging here and there. We're talking about the most exaggerated display of boasting, self-praise, grievance, vanity and the hunger for validation ever performed on the American public stage. And yet millions of Christians have looked at all of that and somehow decided it's not a serious spiritual problem.
Which becomes even more astonishing once you read what the Bible actually has to say about arrogance and pride and how intensely God despises it.
The reward for humility is honor, but the price of arrogance is shame and failure. Jesus Himself says so: “For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
The desire to exalt oneself in one's own sight and the sight of others does not come from God. It runs completely counter to the very essence of who He is, making it totally unbecoming and inappropriate for anyone who claims to follow Him to indulge, practice or endorse.
The need to boast and praise oneself is not a trait of Jesus. However, it is a hallmark of His exact opposite, the Antichrist. Throughout Scripture, the Bible warns that grotesque and obscene levels of pride will be one of the core identifying features of this figure.
The sheer degree of his [Trump’s] pride and boastfulness, which is clearly pathological and well beyond any commonly acceptable bounds of human behavior, is eerily consistent with the extreme narcissism the Bible tells us the man of lawlessness will display when he comes.
I encourage readers to watch my message from Revelation 13 that describes and identifies the “Antichrist.”
Instead of resisting this rising tide of evil, too many Christians are joining it. They're falling away from the truth to embrace the lies of a man of lawlessness, a man with no room in his heart to love God or anyone else, for that matter, because he is utterly consumed by vain and diseased self-obsession.
Jesus warned his followers that a man cannot serve two masters. Eventually, he will love one and hate the other. In the same way, Christians cannot continue to call Christ their Lord while invoking His name to sanctify a man and political movement that stand completely opposed to everything Jesus lived, preached and died for.
Amen, Jason!
Donald Trump’s pathological pride and slavish obeisance to Benjamin Netanyahu and the Zionist State of Israel have probably done more to drive people away from Christianity than any other single individual in U.S. history. Not primarily because of Trump the man, but because of the enthusiastic and cult-like manner in which evangelical Christians support and idolize this man.
And men such as Pete Hegseth and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent—and most of the men in charge of Trump’s administration—are carbon copies of Trump. They share his pride, his deceit and his bloodlust.
History will judge them accordingly.
Thank God for Thomas Massie. Shame on the white evangelicals in Kentucky’s Fourth District (mostly the “Boomers”) that defeated Massie’s re-election bid. And shame on evangelical pastors and “Christians” who continue to support and defend maniacal madmen such as Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.
Both men need to be impeached, convicted in the Senate, removed from office, prosecuted for International War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity and imprisoned. That’s the only way that America can salvage its reputation as a “City on a Hill” (John Winthrop, 1630) in the eyes of the peoples of the world and, perhaps, in the eyes of Almighty God.
© Chuck Baldwin
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