EXCLUSIVE: Communist West Point Grad Was Reported In 2015 For Anti-American PostsThe Army officer who outed himself as a radical Marxist
had been reported back in 2015 for publishing inappropriate and outright anti-American views online, according to a scathing report obtained by The Daily Caller.
The report gave exhaustive and damning details on 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone’s disqualifying insubordination at the U.S. Military Academy, extremist political views and out-of-regulations online activity. Still,
the Academy’s administration saw fit to allow Rapone to graduate in 2016.
“From his various online rantings and posts, it appears that DCT Rapone is an avowed Marxist, which is completely out of line with the values of this nation and its Army,” Heffington said in a sworn statement. “Moreover, CDT Rapone’s posts indicate that he hates West Point, the U.S. Army, and indeed this country. One post dated
16 November 2015 states, ‘F*ck this country and its false freedom.’ He also … even implicitly justifies the actions of ISIS and blames the United States for terrorist attacks.”
Multiple other sources contend that Rapone willfully put his anti-capitalist, anti-military and anti-American views on display for the world to see, both in person and over social media. Two recent academy graduates, when reached for comment, suggested that Rapone’s reputation at the academy preceded him. Although they did not personally know Rapone, they stated that they were aware of his radical leftist views and his rebellious reputation long before his activism hit the news this September.
On social media, Rapone’s account (including his Instagram, with the handle “punkproletarian”)
abound with praise of communist leaders, interspersed with scathing criticism of his nation, its military and even his chain of command. Rapone’s rantings unequivocally condemn what he refers to as the military’s “brutally hierarchical rank structure,” and he deems Defense Secretary Mattis “the most vile f*ck in the current administration.”
This
2015 report unambiguously states that Rapone’s vehement anti-American views and his obsessive insubordination made him a dangerous liability to this nation’s military. Its author urged his chain of command not to allow then-cadet Rapone to commission as an officer. And, according to Heffington, every officer he spoke to agreed with this conclusion.
n his Monday Townhall article, “Our Broken Military Can’t Even Manage to Toss Out Traitors,” Schlichter declared Rapone’s apparently tolerated communist activism “the pinnacle of the military’s moral bankruptcy.” Schlichter argues that Rapone needs to be ousted. But he also professes that the real problem here is far larger than the Marxist officer:
“The real story isn’t this one loser. It’s not even the other losers who knew what he was and said and did nothing,” Schlichter wrote in Townhall. “It’s the chain of command. We need to know exactly what the faculty and staff at West Point knew about Comrade Cadet Rapone’s treachery. If they did know –– and I bet we will find out that he was counseled in writing about it — every officer from his first line supervisor to the USMA Superintendent must be relieved and reprimanded.”
National defense analyst and West Point grad Bob Maginnis shared Schlichter’s concerns.
“Someone must have known about this sort of behavior pattern well before, and they are negligent in the conduct of their job,” Maginnis told One News Now. “He should have been discharged from the military academy long ago.”
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