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Just Following Orders…

Clearly, this is the message.

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“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.“

-Richard Milhouse Nixon

“Then, I have an Article II, where I have to the right to do whatever I want as president.”

-Donald John Trump

I sense a theme in the clips below. It is a strategy that suggests that Congress ought to be impeaching Trump, I guess?

I will note: this is not the PR strategy of a White House that is going to throw Hegseth under the bus.

The only other comment I will make is that Blanche is engaging in a massive tautology: all of these things are legal because we said they are!

Blanche: "What's missing from the conversation about Pete is everything he's done, he's executing on President Trump's mission and what President Trump has said we should do." #JustFollowingOrders

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-11-10T14:35:51.993Z

Hegseth notes that everything he did was "ordered by the commander in chief" (he was just following orders, you see)

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-11-10T13:18:04.275Z

Rubio: "Ultimately our job is to execute on the president's orders … in the end, the decision is the president's"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-11-10T13:54:41.091Z

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