Two time Purple Heart recipient and former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel says the Obama Administration tried to destroy him after he resigned:
Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is accusing the White House of micromanaging his department and attempting to ruin his reputation after he critiqued President Obama‘s military judgment.
Foreign Policy published an extended interview with Hagel today, in which commented on how he was forced to resign after Obama administration officials said that combatting ISIS required someone else’s skills. Hagel was Obama’s third Secretary of Defense to criticize how the president managed Pentagon business, and Hagel said that anonymous White House staffers made up stories to vilify him as he left office.
“They already had my resignation, so what was the point of just continuing to try to destroy me,” Hagel asked himself in the interview. “I don’t know what the purpose was. To this day, I’m still mystified by that. But I move forward. I’m proud of my service.”
The lesson here is clear: The Obama Administration’s main goal is protecting the narcissist in chief. Anyone who departs from Dear Leader’s conventional wisdom must be destroyed.