Republican President-elect Donald Trump is cobbling together “the most reform-oriented Cabinet” in the “lifetime” of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who expects far-left and even some establishment efforts to “destroy” Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary — Pete Hegseth.
“I’m watching President Trump create the most reform-oriented Cabinet in my lifetime,” said Gingrich to “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 77 FM-N.Y. Sunday morning.
Gingrich emphasized while speaking to host John Catsimatidis that the disruptor nominees are long needed to conduct “a complete overhaul” at the Pentagon, adding Trump’s choices for secretary of state, Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and Hegseth would make an “amazing team.”
However, according to Gingrich, Trump’s choices for his Cabinet will face possible historic obstruction, with Hegseth in particular.
“It’s going to take enormous courage and resilience on the part of Pete Hegseth to survive over there because the whole old order is going to try to destroy him,” warned Gingrich. “I’ve been actively involved in thinking about and working on defense for an extraordinarily long time. And I can tell you, the building needs a very complete overhaul.”
According to Gingrich, a source told him that all three—and four-star generals should be sent out and given retirement papers.
“I had one senior person in the military who retired, who was working with Trump, who said he would recommend the president have every three-and-four-star general retire — and then go down to two starts and pick a whole new generation of leaders,” said Gingrich. “He thinks between Obama and Biden, the whole system has just been undermined and corrupted.”
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The former speaker additionally spoke about an overhaul in Congress, including House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana and Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota.
Gingrich said Thune “bridges everybody” and is a “good guy,” and Johnson has the “hardest job in Washington today” with the slimmest of margins with a presumptive 220-213 majority and only two races left to call.
“I think one of Trump’s commitments ought to be to try to turn the cities red so that they actually have jobs, safety, and decent, honest government,” concluded Gingrich. “Now, that’s a pretty good project.”
