{"id":39800,"date":"2025-04-25T16:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/pete-hegseths-controversial-chief-of-staff-leaves-post-unexpectedly\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T16:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:32:35","slug":"pete-hegseths-controversial-chief-of-staff-leaves-post-unexpectedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/pete-hegseths-controversial-chief-of-staff-leaves-post-unexpectedly\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth\u2019s controversial chief of staff leaves post unexpectedly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exit comes after Joe Kasper was implicated as orchestrator of power grab that led to dismissal of three Pentagon officials<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/25\/donald-trump-china-tariffs-global-trade-pete-hegseth-us-politics-latest-updates-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Kasper, the controversial chief of staff to the US defense secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/pete-hegseth\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>, who was central to a dramatic power struggle at the Pentagon, has left his post, in an unexpected departure.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Hegseth\u2019s assurances <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/22\/pete-hegseth-signal-group-chat\">just days ago<\/a> in a TV appearance on the Fox &amp; Friends show that Kasper would merely transition to \u201ca slightly different role\u201d within the department, Kasper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/18\/defense-secretary-chief-of-staff-joe-kasper-departure-00299508\">confirmed to Politico<\/a> in a Thursday interview he will instead return to government relations and consulting, maintaining only limited Pentagon ties as a special government employee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/25\/pete-hegseth-joe-kaspar-exit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exit comes after Joe Kasper was implicated as orchestrator of power grab that led to dismissal of three Pentagon officials US politics live \u2013 latest updates Joe Kasper, the controversial chief of staff to the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who was central to a dramatic power struggle at the Pentagon, has left his post, &#8230; <a title=\"Pete Hegseth\u2019s controversial chief of staff leaves post unexpectedly\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/pete-hegseths-controversial-chief-of-staff-leaves-post-unexpectedly\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pete Hegseth\u2019s controversial chief of staff leaves post unexpectedly\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}