Anonymous ID: 6fce39 Jan. 25, 2025, 12:20 p.m. No.22434198   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4252 >>4462 >>4510 >>4544

It is the privilege of a lifetime to lead the warriors of the Department of Defense, under the leadership of our Commander in Chief Donald J. Trump. We will put America First, and we will never back down.

The President gave us a clear mission: achieve Peace through Strength. We will do this in three ways — by restoring the warrior ethos, rebuilding our military, and reestablishing deterrence.

o We will revive the warrior ethos and restore trust in our military. We are American warriors. We will defend our country. Our standards will be high, uncompromising, and clear. The strength of our military is our unity and our shared purpose.

o We will rebuild our military by matching threats to capabilities. This means reviving our defense industrial base, reforming our acquisition process, passing a financial audit, and rapidly fielding emerging technologies. We will remain the strongest and most lethal force in the world.

o We will reestablish deterrence by defending our homeland — on the ground and in the sky. We will work with allies and partners to deter aggression in the Indo-Pacific by Communist China, as well as supporting the President’s priority to end wars responsibly and reorient to key threats. We will stand by our allies — and our enemies are on notice.

All of this will be done with a focus on lethality, meritocracy, accountability, standards, and readiness.

I have committed my life to warfighters and their families. Just as my fellow soldiers had my back on the battlefield, know that I will always have your back. We serve together at a dangerous time. Our enemies will neither rest nor relent. And neither will we. We will stand shoulder to shoulder to meet the urgency of this moment.

Like each of you, I love my country and swore an oath to defend the Constitution. We will do that each and every day, as one team. Together we will accomplish the President’s mission to deter war, and if necessary, defeat and destroy our enemies. Godspeed!

hegseth Defense Secretary

 

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4040940/secretary-hegseths-message-to-the-force/

Anonymous ID: 6fce39 Jan. 25, 2025, 12:25 p.m. No.22434233   🗄️.is 🔗kun

A Florida man has been arrested for making “violent” threats against President Trump, police said Saturday.

Shannon Depararro Atkins​ allegedly made posts on social media targeting the ​Commander-in-Chief.

Atkins, 46, was arrested just before 7:30 p.m. Friday during a traffic stop in West Palm Beach — where he was allegedly found with three baggies of cocaine in his pocket, cops said.

Authorities arrested Atkins after receiving a Jan. 19 tip pointing to disturbing posts the man had allegedly been sharing in the days before Trump’s inauguration.

“America needs one good bullet to be saved,” Atkins allegedly wrote on Facebook on Jan. 19, a day before Trump was inaugurated for his second term.

Two hours later the same day, Atkins confessed on his Facebook page that he’d been banished from Elon Musk’s X.

“I’ve been banned from “X”, because I said I hope and pray someone kills him,” he wrote in an apparent reference to Trump. “History is supposed to repeat itself. We haven’t had an assassination in years.”

He allegedly kept going, writing later in the day, “Bullets please. Please Jesus! Save America” over an image of a meme calling inauguration day a “day of mourning.”

“That gives you a flavor of some of the posts that this gentleman posted,” West Palm Beach Police Chief Tony Araujo said at a news conference, adding that the posts reflected “violent rhetoric.”

Atkins had been sharing his negative feelings for Trump for months, but volume dramatically increased leading up to and following the inauguration.

On Friday — shortly before the arrest — he reposted a meme showing the president with his late first wife Ivanka Trump that included the phrase, “I hope they get back together soon.”

Atkins allegedly included a row of smiling emojis with the post.

Atkins allegedly admitted to the violent social media posts — but claimed he was simply “joking.”

“Folks, this is not a joke. Nothing of that sort is a joke,” Araujo said.

“In today’s climate, you really can’t say things like this. We have incident after incident, example after example of when these threats become real. And we take these very seriously.“

Voter registration details show that Atkins voted Democrat since at least 2008.

He is believed to own Big Mama’s House of Sweets, a baked goods shop in West Palm Beach.

Atkins was being held at the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Main Detention Center and faces a drug possession charge as well as one count of written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, a second-degree felony.

The secret service will determine whether they will pursue additional, federal charges over Atkins’ social media threats.

 

https://nypost.com/2025/01/25/us-news/florida-man-arrested-for-allegedly-making-violent-threats-against-trump/

Anonymous ID: 6fce39 Jan. 25, 2025, 12:57 p.m. No.22434480   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4485

President Trump: everyone wants to do a news conference

i just got a call that they would invest $12

i said no, it's gotta be $1 billion or more