All eyes now seem to be on Pete Hegseth and/or those who would oust him. Jon Oliver's show last night made a very strong case that such as ouster should have happened months ago. But if you're thinking Trump himself will order that, I refer you to Fred Kaplan and his latest column in which he says…
What Trump does with Hegseth depends in part on what he wants to do in Iran. If he resumes bombing, as he said he might do after the midterms, then Hegseth provides useful cover. If he decides not to restart the war, as he also signaled might be the case a few days before the election, then Trump needs someone to blame for what he would now acknowledge is a mistake. Donald J. Trump doesn't admit making mistakes. So Hegseth would take the fall.
I keep recalling — and I may already have quoted it here — Jackie Mason's great joke about Nixon during Watergate. "Every week, they caught him doing something illegal and every week, someone else went to prison for it!"