Sources within the White House assert that President Trump is considering nominating former Virginia Senator and Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb as the new Secretary of Defense.

Webb is a Democrat who ran in the 2016 election as a skeptical voice within the Democrat Party, unafraid to challenge establishment consensus on foreign policy and cultural issues. He spoke after the election about how the Democratic Party had shifted to the far left, making him a sore thumb in the party.

Webb would be nominated as a qualified national security figure who shares Donald Trump’s views on a restrained foreign policy and the need to withdraw American troops from eternal nation-building missions, such as Syria and Afghanistan. Previous Defense Secretary James Mattis resigned from office, making it clear in a resignation letter that he couldn’t continue working under a President like Trump who deviated ideologically from some of the hawkish views dominating U.S foreign policy for more than half a century.

Like Mattis, Webb is a decorated Marine Corps veteran. Webb graduated from the Naval Academy in 1968 and deployed to Vietnam shortly after, earning a Navy Cross and two Purple Hearts. Webb described his experiences being wounded in combat in Vietnam in a 2015 Democratic Party debate, referencing the Viet Cong enemy combatant who wounded him when asked to describe one of his greatest enemies.

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Webb medically retired from the Marine Corps on account of his injuries from Vietnam and went on to become Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy in 1987- meaning a potential role in the Trump Administration as Secretary of Defense would be his second round of serving under a Republican President. He was elected a U.S Senator for Virginia in 2007, and was a consistent opponent to the Iraq War, aligning concisely with President Trump’s non-interventionist instincts.

Webb has also become a Democratic voice against the party’s addiction to racial politics and cultural animuses.

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YUGE: DHS Creating Statue Defense Task Force to Defend National Heritage Against Leftist Thuggery

Finally getting serious?

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Jul 2, 2020

Richard Moorhead

The Department of Homeland Security has created a law enforcement task force to prevent the destruction and vandalism of statues and monuments commemorating the heritage and history of the United States. The task force was announced in a statement from Acting Secretary Chad Wolf on Wednesday.

“DHS is answering the President’s call to use our law enforcement personnel across the country to protect our historic landmarks,” said Wolf. “We won’t stand idly by while violent anarchists and rioters seek not only to vandalize and destroy the symbols of our nation, but to disrupt law and order and sow chaos in our communities.”

A lackadaisical federal response to the rounds of statue destruction and cultural vandalism has enabled left-wing rioters to destroy statues with impunity. Only recently did federal authorities begin to signal that they intent to start seriously punishing criminal suspects who destroy images of Presidents and great American men.

The Department of Justice announced late last week that four men suspected in a failed vandalism attempt targeting the statue of former President Andrew Jackson in Washington DC’s Lafayette Square have been indicted on federal charges of destruction of federal property.

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DOJ Charges Four Men in Vandalism Attempt on Andrew Jackson Statue, One Arrested

President Donald Trump signed an executive order late last month mandating that federal prosecutors assign stricter penalties to left-wing cultural criminals seeking to destroy statues and images commemorating the national heritage of the United States.

President @realDonaldTrump has signed an executive order to ensure anyone that destroys or vandalizes a monument, memorial, or statue is prosecuted to the fullest extent. pic.twitter.com/ZhA6zU1DpU

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 27, 2020

It’s likely that when the punks of ANTIFA realize that they’ll stand to spend years in federal prison for criminal acts of vandalism targeting American heritage, they’ll back down into the cracks of society from whence they came.