From Pete Hegseth’s book which every Senator had access to when Trump nominated him. They knew what he was and they knew that Trump was a sociopathic moron. I imagine they thought the generals would be a “guardrail” but they aren’t. (Those who might have been willing to do it have been fired.)
This is the simple-minded, delayed adolescent we have in charge of the U.S. military because all of those Republicans betrayed America.