Just in via press release from the Pentagon:
Today, the Department of Defense announced that it intends to appoint Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, Ambassador Thomas Carter, Dr. Edward Luttwak, Mr. Scott O’Grady, Mr. Thomas Stewart, the Honorable Randy Forbes, Senator Robert Smith and Ambassador Charles Glazer to the Defense Policy Board.
“Today, I’m proud to announce the addition of these eight new members to the Department’s Defense Policy Board,” said Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller. “These incoming members bring extensive defense and national security affairs experience from their time in Congress, the State Department, our armed forces and beyond.”
Trump’s nominee for Assistant Secretary of Defense, Scott O’Grady, is spreading election fraud conspiracy theories online and threatened violence against Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, just like his boss. https://t.co/TPVE7qAFuR
— Swing Left (@swingleft) December 4, 2020
Last night the newly nominated Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs parachuted into my DM’s because I commented on a thread where he was telling critics to say things “to his face.” If you want to be in the arena you better have thick skin. He doesn’t pic.twitter.com/clotgU5dzk
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) November 18, 2020
Here are @mmfa‘s previous reports on Scott O’Grady:
1) O’Grady promoted QAnon accounts, right-wing conspiracy theories: https://t.co/CWZ94AASU6
2) O’Grady pushed bogus theory about origin of COVID-19: https://t.co/hzHcq8xLjL https://t.co/vQbuGd1UTg— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) December 14, 2020
Capt Scott O’Grady, shot down over Bosnia in ‘95, has retweeted known conspiracy theories: ie that Hillary Clinton and George Soros engineered foreign interference in the 2020 election and called Obama and Generals “sworn socialists.” Retweeted a tweet calling Mattis a “traitor”. https://t.co/jd7Y7BlcTH
— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) December 14, 2020