# Speaker Claims No Defense Secretary Was Impeached for Lawful Military Operations

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120154139028254720
- Source account: [@oscarswiIde](https://x.com/oscarswiIde)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:36
- Published: 2026-11-10
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UE51st0FXaDZ/en/speaker-claims-no-defense-secretary-was-impeached-for-lawful-military-operations

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UE51st0FXaDZ/en/speaker-claims-no-defense-secretary-was-impeached-for-lawful-military-operations) In the 250 years of our American Republic, no Secretary of War or Secretary of Defense has ever been impeached for carrying out lawful military operations, and in our case, successful ones at that.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UE51st0FXaDZ/en/speaker-claims-no-defense-secretary-was-impeached-for-lawful-military-operations?t=18) Not once. War powers resolution or not, not under Reagan in Lebanon, not under Clinton in Kosovo, not under Obama in Iraq and Syria, not under Biden in Iraq and Syria.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UE51st0FXaDZ/en/speaker-claims-no-defense-secretary-was-impeached-for-lawful-military-operations?t=31) That's the standard. The history is clear, and it's very straightforward