Elaina Finkelstein / Library of CongressSourceCC0 1.0Cropped from a Library of Congress photo of Boot in conversation with David Rubenstein.
Max Boot is an American historian, author and foreign-policy analyst. He is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a weekly columnist for The Washington Post. His books include Reagan: His Life and Legend (2024) and The Road Not Taken, his biography of Edward Lansdale, which was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in biography.
We have documented 1 statement by Max Boot, in 1 case. Each statement below gives the quotation, its original source and a link to the full case.
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Role at the time: Washington Post columnist and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
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Statement summary
In a Washington Post column headlined Hegseth deserves to be impeached or fired, Boot ranks Hegseth as the most damaging appointee in Trump's Cabinet. Sharing the column on Bluesky, he writes that Hegseth could be fired after the midterms and that Rep. Thomas Massie plans to reintroduce a resolution to impeach him.
“It’s been a close race, but I’ve seen enough. I’m calling it: Pete Hegseth is the most damaging Trump appointee.”
On whether Hegseth should be impeached, Boot's column argues that he deserves to be impeached or fired and calls him the most damaging of Trump's appointees. That supports removing him.
Read Hegseth impeachment filings on military operations, oversight and Signal, the inspector general's findings, and his response to the claim he was 'texting war plans.'
