There is the secretary of defense sharing battle plans with his third wife, a former Fox News producer, on Signal. His top aides have all quit or been fired.

The department is leaking like a sieve about its leader. Disarray, they say.

He was stunningly unqualified for the job in the first instance (joke of the week: the cardinals should choose the next pope from “Fox and Friends”), and Republican senators knew it, but they didn’t dare stand up.

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