Chairman of Joint Chiefs Torches Trump for War Crimes!!!
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2:14The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, C .Q.
2:19Brown Jr., is calling out Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth publicly.
2:24Now, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, C .Q.
2:28Brown, was fired by Donald Trump and Hegseth back in 2025, and he's now breaking
2:34his silence. Now, this comes at the same time that Donald Trump and Hegseth fired
2:40the Army Chief of Staff, Randy George, this past week during Donald Trump's catastrophic war
2:47in Iran, getting rid of yet another member of the Joint Chiefs.
2:52And the number one officer in the United States Army, a beloved individual, as was
2:59C .Q. Brown. Well, C .Q.
3:01Brown, he was speaking in Harvard and very powerful words that you're probably not going
3:06to see anywhere else other than here on the Midas Touch Network.
3:10And he didn't hold back.
3:12Remember the video I made yesterday, how finally we saw the Joint Chiefs showing public
3:18dissent against Donald Trump, Hegseth, and the despicable criminal lawless regime now.
3:25Of course, these former top military generals and admirals, they're not going to use that
3:30language that I just used.
3:32But in their own way, they went there.
3:35So let me show you right here the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
3:39Staff, C .Q. Brown. Here he is basically saying that the United States, that Trump
3:45and Hegseth, with their leadership, has frankly been showing such a degree of hubris and
3:52arrogance. And there should have been more planning regarding this war in Iran.
3:56And he says it's kind of shocking when you hear the amount of aircraft and
4:02military equipment that's already been destroyed by Iran in the various military bases that American
4:11has in the Middle East, as well as the American aircraft flying over Iran.
4:16Here, play this clip. Providing the right capability for our warfighter, both on the offensive
4:21and defensive end, our casualty numbers could match, you know, the equivalent of World War
4:26II of Vietnam, which is not something we've had to deal with, mostly throughout my
4:32career. And so we can't walk in with a bunch of hubris of, this won't
4:36happen to us. Well, we just saw it happen with 13 service members that have
4:40been killed, 350 or so that have been injured, and not to mention the number
4:44of aircraft that have been lost, which, you know, that's not something we haven't lost
4:49a lot of aircraft, particularly like an AWAC sitting on a ramp.
4:52And those are the kinds of things that should shock us a bit into reality
4:57that, you know, war and going into a conflict is not something that we, you
5:04know, you just take lightly.
5:06You've got to take it seriously because you're putting men and women's lives at risk.
5:09And I'll just tell you personally.
5:12You know, with every loss, it impacts me, because I know someone's going to show
5:17up in their dress uniform to knock on somebody's door to tell them, you know,
5:21your son, your daughter, your husband or wife is no longer with us.
5:25And that just disrupts the family, and that weighs heavily on me.
5:29Yeah, yeah. Thank you, Chairman.
5:31And then more over here from the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
5:36C .Q. Brown, Jr. Here he is talking about how inappropriate it was when Pete
5:42Hegseth gave a pass to that Apache helicopter pilot who was flying the plane by
5:48Kid Rock, and just the awful conduct and behavior, and the lack of leadership, frankly,
5:57that exists at the highest levels, and how that erodes confidence at all of the
6:02other levels. Here, play this clip.
6:04And there were certain things that would never have even crossed our minds that over
6:09the past couple of days, I've seen that make me nervous for the institution.
6:14This sounds funny, but an Army helicopter doing an overflight of Kid Rock, that's like
6:21super unprofessional. The Secretary of Defense deciding there's going to be no accountability for that
6:27when the uniformed military says that they'll be held accountable is crazy.
6:34The Secretary of Defense pulling members off a one -star promotion list for reasons that
6:40are almost certainly to do with their identity is crazy.
6:44That had never, that's not something that would have happened before.
6:49So, again, Chairman, you know, you're too professional to comment on news, because that's not
6:55your role. But can you just talk about, if you're the chairman and you're thinking
6:59about civilian political appointee leadership, what role do they have to build that trust in
7:04the institution? Well, part of it is, you know, you think about the role of
7:08a military member at the senior level, particularly as a chairman, when you're providing advice.
7:13And part of that is being able to provide the advice of how you would
7:16handle those types of situations.
7:19And I'll just tell you, just like you, I'm concerned.
7:22I don't have all the facts on some of these, but having had to deal
7:28with situations of unauthorized flybys as a commander, having sat on promotion boards, reviewed results
7:39from promotion boards. I know they're fair based on merit.
7:45And if what I'm hearing is being reported is true, it is very concerning, because
7:51it does. Start to get over in discipline and ensuring that people that are all
7:57giving a fair opportunity. No one wants to be advantaged or disadvantaged based on their
8:01background. They just want to have an opportunity to compete.
8:06And once you've gone through a promotion board and having sat on promotion boards, as
8:10I said, from my experience, they've been fair.
8:18Footnote for all of you not following the news.
8:20Now, in case you were wondering, this was an interview, a discussion that was taking
8:25place at Harvard. The moderator right there is a former chief of staff to a
8:32defense secretary in the prior administration.
8:35More from the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs here.
8:38This is some good stuff that he's calling it out like this.
8:41Next, what they talk about is how Trump and Hegseth and the entire Trump regime
8:46massacred the little girl elementary school.
8:51And here, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, CQ Brown, is talking about ultimately
8:55accountability. Who should be held accountable in the United States?
9:01And he's saying people should be held accountable.
9:03There's still a chain of command.
9:04And anybody who gave that order to massacre the elementary school, killing all of those
9:10little girls. And that was one of many massacres that the Trump regime has engaged
9:14in in Iran. There was a prior massacre involving a gym as well.
9:19Watch what the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs says here.
9:22Let's play this clip. I'm sure most of you all know the United States made
9:26a horrible mistake and hit an Iranian girl's school during the first wave of attacks
9:34that killed about 175 people.
9:37Most of them were young women who were under the age of 13.
9:42And the initial explanation that came out was mixed.
9:47The president said the Iranians did it.
9:49The Office of the Secretary of Defense of Public Affairs said the advanced AI model
9:53did it. The military, to their credit, said we made a mistake.
9:58And there have been different explanations for that, too.
10:02So it leads to the question, Chairman, is when there's a targeting process like that,
10:09or later down the road, if there is a more autonomous type weapon, and you're
10:15trying to figure out who should be accountable in a situation like that, which has
10:21always been super important to the U .S.
10:23military. How have you thought about that?
10:27It's a really hard question.
10:30It is. But I still think there's a commander or someone that signs off on,
10:34whether it's an analyst that signs off, this is a good target, you know, in
10:39this example. that you just talked about the school, you know, when things get recharacterized
10:43or you have bad intel or late intel, I mean, the same thing happened with
10:47the Allied Force where we struck a building that we thought we didn't know was
10:52a Chinese embassy. Yeah, right.
10:54Yeah. In Yugoslavia. In Yugoslavia.
10:57So you can make those kinds of mistakes based on the data you have.
11:02But the big picture here is, you know, I'd say the commander is ultimately responsible,
11:08but it may be somebody down at a lower level that should be checking these
11:12things. That's why you want to have a human in a loop that can cross
11:14check it against. It doesn't even look right.
11:17Does this make sense based on our experience?
11:20Which is why I think it's still important that we understand some of the basic,
11:24you know, fundamentals so we don't just kick back and let AI do it all
11:28and go, it was AI's fault.
11:30And then, you know, is it the person that asked the prompt?
11:34Is it the developer of the AI?
11:35Is it, you know, you could go down, you know, several different lawsuits to figure
11:39out who would ultimately be responsible.
11:41Right. The issue is we got to figure out how to, in a conflict, how
11:44do you continue to keep moving forward and making sure we're being effective, but also
11:50doing things in line with the law of armed conflict.
11:53Yeah. Great. Thank you. Now, this is a powerful moment and you see why this
11:59guy, CQ Brown Jr. rose through the ranks.
12:02It should be noted that Donald Trump appointed him to be the chief of staff
12:07of the United States Air Force from 2020.
12:11And then he served in that position to 2023.
12:14And he was basically unanimously voted in by the United States Senate back in 2020.
12:20He was Trump's pick in 2020 to be the, to be the chief of staff
12:25for the United States Air Force.
12:26And then Biden elevated him to be the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
12:31And here he is over here again, talking about the importance of, of trust and
12:36what trust means and building trust within the armed forces, getting the people of America
12:41to trust the military. Let's play this clip.
12:44In the military right now and your perspective on the way things are going with
12:48that. If I could, one of the things that, uh, when I became the chairman,
12:53um, I did a memo that was my expectations of the force.
12:56It was a memo that came out, uh, the first, you know, I took over
13:00on, uh, the first of October was a Sunday.
13:02That's when I took over.
13:03And so it was two October and I had three expectations.
13:07And one of those was trust is the foundation of our profession.
13:10You know, I was really focused on was how do we build trust within our
13:15military and how we take care of our service members and their families.
13:19It's the trust that we, we have as we work with our, uh, civilian leadership
13:24and most importantly, trust with the American population.
13:29And it's, it takes a lot of work, but I think it's important.
13:35And when you have a, uh, a very divided nation, it makes it even more
13:38challenging. And as you look at, you know, it was, you know, as you're talking,
13:43a lot of government institutions are, are coming down in trust.
13:46Yeah. Congress is 6 % just, uh, I'm just saying, you know, make you really
13:51worried. They're dragging us down from a military perspective.
13:55But I think, you know, as I've, you know, work with service members and the
14:00ones I still talk to, um, that's what they're focused on.
14:05Um, it's probably even more challenging in, in, in, in the current environment, um, to,
14:11to work, work through, uh, and maintain that trust.
14:16I mean, the tough part here is that, uh, we have a smaller and smaller,
14:19um, part of the population that actually knows somebody in the military has a connection
14:24to military. Yeah. And the less you know about the military, the harder it is
14:29for you to have that trust.
14:30Yeah. Uh, or a small event, um, can actually really erode that trust.
14:36Yeah. And so that's why I think it's really important for our, our military to,
14:40you know, stay engaged in the communities, help people, uh, have a chance to meet
14:43some of our service members and their families, because they're people just like you.
14:49Um, but they did something that most, of our nation doesn't do is raise their
14:54right hand and take an oath to support and defend the constitution.
14:58And so, um, I still have complete trust and confidence in our military.
15:04And as I, uh, have told some military members are still serving, uh, life is
15:08not fair. No one said it's going to be easy.
15:11Anything that's worth doing takes effort in maintaining trust and building trust takes effort.
15:17And, uh, even more so, uh, today.
15:20Thank you so much. Um, This is part of that discussion as well.
15:24And this is clearly, uh, aimed at Hegseth, uh, using, uh, AI to replace humans,
15:33making the ultimate decisions about, uh, the kill targets and where to shoot.
15:37We've seen, I think in this war already, you know, although we'll gather more evidence
15:42of how it was that the Manab Elementary School and other site selections were taken,
15:47that, that it's perhaps AI was picking all of the locations and there was no
15:51kind of further, uh, double checking the work of the AI or, you know, if
15:56that wasn't the case, there were, um, you know, it was people who were involved,
16:00you know, in the chain of command.
16:01This is a very important part of this discussion.
16:03It's clearly aimed at the reckless use, the disgust, and reckless use of AI by
16:09Trump and Hegseth. Let's show you former chairman C .Q.
16:12Brown here play this clip.
16:14As you go through the charting process, for example, no matter how many people you
16:18have, you still have to have, I believe, a person, a human in the loop.
16:25Because what AI helps you to do is help, it helps to provide you options,
16:30but you still have to, someone has to make a decision and use their judgment.
16:33Because AI does not have judgment, okay?
16:35And so that's an important aspect.
16:37And there may be concern that AI is going to give you some bad information
16:40or hallucinate. Well, I've worked with people who've given me bad information.
16:44And hallucinate. Sometimes they're hallucinating.
16:47Are you smoking something? We're not doing that.
16:50So, I mean, so you can't just, just because you have AI, just don't go,
16:54hey, AI is taking care of it.
16:55We're going to kick back.
16:56And, you know, because when you think about war and conflict, this is a human
17:00endeavor. And you're putting humans at risk, but you also have to have a human
17:04that's in there that is watching to make sure it's doing all the things it's
17:09supposed to do. And so you just can't outsource this whole thing to artificial intelligence.
17:14Now, the other part I would also highlight, just as we talk about artificial intelligence,
17:18there is this whole aspect, and I felt this way probably 20 years ago when
17:24cyber became big within the military, and it was on every PowerPoint slide, like cyber's
17:29going to save the world, all the things we're going to do.
17:31And we've done the same thing with AI to an extent.
17:34Everybody's got AI and saying, well, AI is going to do what?
17:38I mean, part of this is you've got to figure out what is it you're
17:40trying to achieve, and does AI make it better, or is it just burning up
17:44daylight and time and not producing what you need?
17:48You know, and I really believe that the, you know, the quality of the prompt
17:52of the question you ask or the iteration you have, that helps you with AI.
17:55But if you, you know, garbage in, garbage out, bad prompt, bad answer, and you
18:01just can't run with that answer.
18:02And so, I mean, there's some real pluses to AI and autonomy, but we still
18:07have to pay attention to it because, you know, we're responsible.
18:13And it can set the tone for an operation, or it could, you know, create
18:17an issue that you're going to have to deal with as a human.
18:20So you want to make sure you're paying attention to what it's doing.
18:25And, you know, they're speaking in Harvard right here, and one of the things that
18:29Hegseth did, not just Harvard, but lots of colleges, if Hegseth and Trump and the
18:34regime, the Trump regime, viewed the conduct as, or like a college as being a,
18:41quote, woke college like Harvard and, you know, lots of other schools, then Hegseth has
18:47banned all military affiliations with that college.
18:51So like Harvard and MIT, and there's so many schools where now our armed forces
18:56don't get to interact with students on these campuses.
19:00And, you know, one of the things, and CQ Brown, he's ROTC, and, you know,
19:07he's discussing how really dangerous this is and how so much of what Hegseth is
19:12doing, you know, he goes, I don't know all of the stuff.
19:14He goes, but a lot of it's very dangerous.
19:16Here, play this clip. But all cooperation between the Department of Defense and Harvard will
19:23be cut. We have usually between 20 and 25 active duty lieutenant colonels, colonels who
19:28come here. This will be the last time they come, at least for the next
19:31few years. Bunch of active duty service members who are either captains or majors who
19:36are students and then go back into the force.
19:38This will be the last year that they're here.
19:40Those who are here can finish.
19:42And then we're lucky we have a lot of vets.
19:45You know, there have been chiefs to staff of the Army who are in these
19:48programs, a lot of very senior leaders.
19:50You don't have to comment on Harvard in particular, but to me, the reason it
19:55was important is most Harvard students have not met someone in the military until they
19:59have an interaction with these people, whether they're international students or, sorry to sound mean,
20:05they're just like so progressive they've never been in that world.
20:09Can you just talk a little bit more about like how do we get different
20:13parts of American society to either join the military, meet the military so that we
20:18can rebuild some of that trust and there's not such a stark divide?
20:22Well, I think that one of the key things I would highlight kind of like
20:26you described the value of our service members coming to institutions like Harvard, not only
20:32for our service members, but also for the students at Harvard and faculty, because this
20:37may be the only military person they have a chance to meet.
20:39You know, I'm on faculty at Duke.
20:41We have this same conversation of, you know, the value of sending military members to
20:49various elite institutions across the United States because they'll get a perspective that they wouldn't
20:56get if they went to one of our war colleges because there's probably more groupthink
21:00at our war colleges than there is coming here because as I sit in a
21:04class, I co -teach a class with Dr.
21:06Peter Fever on civil relations and as I listen to it, there's things that are
21:10being said that you would never hear in a war college.
21:14But it's good because you have military members in that class that are hearing some
21:19things and it's challenging your assumptions.
21:21And so there's some real value and it broadens your perspective to be a critical
21:25thinker and invariably, you're going to work with, if any one of these students goes
21:30into government in like the State Department, you're going to work with, but you're going
21:35to work with them yeah and there's some things that you know working with people
21:39that don't think like you is probably you know it's an important part of leadership
21:42and uh as we talked a little bit about that backstage um you know part
21:47of leadership is working with people that that sometimes can be difficult um and and
21:52that you know how do you learn how to do that if you everybody thinks
21:55like you and all they you know they never challenge your assumptions and i think
22:00there's some real value in in in that opportunity to to interact the last thing
22:06i would say is is you talked about kind of looking at the military i'm
22:11a big believer uh young people only aspire to be what they see or know
22:14about you don't decide to grow up to be something you never heard of it's
22:19not like you get a ping pong ball out of a lotto machine and go
22:22i'm going to be military i mean you've really at some point someone's going to
22:27talk to you and you decide that you're going to major in whatever you're going
22:30to major in what career path you're going to take and so the key point
22:33is the value of having military members here is you get a chance to meet
22:36someone you go you know i never thought about joining the military what's it like
22:40just like you would do for any other career field and that's the real value
22:45you have in this interaction that happens at uh at these uh at the universities
22:50yes thank you um you know it also should be noted that in the past
22:5424 hours uh the email that was sent by randy george uh after he was
23:01fired that's the army chief of staff uh general four -star general top army officer
23:07hegseth fires him in the middle of uh the war and lots of people are
23:11saying that one of the main reasons is that um randy george was continuing to
23:17promote women and black people and that hegseth didn't like that he didn't want them
23:21to be go through the promotion rank and um both uh both uh uh this
23:27guy and the others there were basically saying no you know randy george and others
23:31were saying no we're going to promote people based on merit um so here's the
23:36email that's being sent or that this is randy george's email uh former army chief
23:40of staff he was on the joint chiefs he was one of the members there
23:44being the top army officer here's his email army leaders i had the chance to
23:49speak with a few of you yesterday and wanted to follow up with a broader
23:53note of thanks to all of you for your support and exceptional teamwork while i
23:57served as the csa the chief of staff of the army as my time in
24:01the army ends i reflect on the immeasurable pride being part of the army team
24:04has been for me for these past 38 years i enlisted in the army right
24:09out of high school and always made the decision to stay another tour because of
24:13the selfless people i was blessed to serve alongside it has been the greatest privilege
24:17to serve beside you and lead soldiers in support of our country i know you
24:22all continue to stay laser focused on the mission continue innovating and relentlessly cut through
24:27the bureaucracy to get our war fighters what they need to win on the modern
24:31battlefield our soldiers are truly the best in the world they deserve tough training and
24:38courageous leaders of character i have no doubt you will all continue to lead with
24:44courage character and grit patty sends her gratitude as well she'll she's always been inspired
24:51by the strength of our army families this will defend vr very truly yours randy
24:57and you see what he says right there our soldiers are truly the best in
25:02the world they deserve tough training and courageous leaders of character character and its importance
25:09i want to emphasize that because to me he was also hinting there you get
25:14the code and language that pete hegseth and donald trump lack the requisite character someone
25:21in my view who also clearly lacks the requisite character maga extremist laura loomer the
25:27trump sycophant and she was responsible for getting the national security council iran director nate
25:35swanson previously uh fired and she got him fired uh you know before the iran
25:41war and here's what max blumenthal says he goes before laura loomer got someone who
25:46may or may not be qasem soleimani's niece deported she got former nsc iran director
25:52nate swanson fired swanson correctly warned that iran would close the strait of her moves
25:58hammer us bases across the region and turn the war into a quagmire and that's
26:03what happens when you lose the critical talent like that like randy george like cq
26:12um like like all of these top leaders i mean basically the entire joint chiefs
26:17has been fired by donald trump and his despicable regime well anyway i thought it
26:22was great to see the former chairman of the joint chiefs cq brown jr standing
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