Exposed: Donald Trump’s new Acting Secretary of Defense is a Russian puppet

| 7:30 pm EST December 23, 2018
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Donald Trump announced today that he’s turning down James Mattis’ offer to stay on as Secretary of Defense through February, and he’s instead installing Patrick Shanahan as new Acting Secretary of Defense just one week from now. That’s more than a wee bit eyebrow raising, because Shanahan is some kind of Russian puppet. How do we know? Just ask the late John McCain, who had some choice words to say about Shanahan and the Kremlin.

During Patrick Shanahan’s Senate confirmation hearings for Deputy Secretary of Defense in mid 2017, he was grilled by John McCain over his apparent desire to appease Vladimir Putin when it came to Ukraine. At one point, according to the Washington Post, an exasperated McCain said to Shanahan, “Have you not been aware of the thousands of people that have been killed by Vladimir Putin?”

This raises questions as to why Donald Trump chose a guy like Shanahan to be Deputy Secretary of Defense to begin with. At the time he had no prior experience serving in, or overseeing, the military. Instead he was an executive at Boeing of all things. The only thing we can find in Shanahan’s record that would point why Trump chose him? His stated views on how the United States should essentially let Russia have Ukraine.

This comes after Donald Trump announced this week that he was pulling out of Syria, ostensibly in part to appease Vladimir Putin. And of course it’s long been documented that the Trump campaign and Russia had secret meetings at the 2016 Republican National Convention so they could change the RNC platform language to favor Russia over Ukraine. Now that Trump is just weeks away from facing felony counts for treasonously conspiring with Russia, suddenly Trump is rushing to put a Russian puppet in charge of the Pentagon.