{"id":1197772,"date":"2022-01-07T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T22:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197772"},"modified":"2022-01-07T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T22:05:30","slug":"lt-col-stuart-scheller-ill-probably-run-for-office-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lt-col-stuart-scheller-ill-probably-run-for-office-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller: \u2018I\u2019ll Probably\u2019 Run For Office In 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flt-col-stuart-scheller-ill-probably-run-for-office-in-2024%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197772&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The former U.S. Marine lieutenant colonel removed from the military after his video condemning President Joe Biden\u2019s calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan went viral, has announced he might run for elected office in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll probably jump into a race in \u201924,\u201d former Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/former-marine-who-went-viral-afghanistan-comments-says-hell-probably-run-office-2024\">told<\/a> the \u201cJohn Solomon Reports\u201d podcast on Wednesday. He said he presently lacks \u201cthe physical, mental, spiritual endurance right now to jump into a race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Solomon pressed Scheller about the possibility of running for an elected office in the 2024 election cycles, Scheller replied, \u201cI\u2019m sure I will. \u2026 I can\u2019t go fishing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since being separated from the armed forces, Scheller has recruited approximately 25 candidates for office as part of a coalition called <a href=\"https:\/\/votes4vets.org\/\">Vote4Vets.org<\/a>. The endorsed candidates \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/01\/04\/what-the-controversial-accountability-marine-officer-is-up-to-next\/\">90% of whom<\/a> he estimates are veterans \u2014 promise to press for greater accountability of military leaders, and for themselves once in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what I plan on doing is supporting this coalition that I built \u2014 and it\u2019s still growing,\u201d Scheller said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a conservative, but I think we need leaders and not politicians,\u201d&nbsp;he told Solomon of <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/\">Just The News<\/a>. While Scheller said he has \u201ca lot of respect for the office of the president,\u201d he believes \u201cBiden has a lot of problems.\u201d The worst is that \u201che\u2019s not, in my opinion, very good\u201d as a president or commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is it was always apolitical for me,\u201d he said. \u201cI never mentioned Biden\u2019s name once \u2026 because I had a lot of respect for the office of the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He likened his situation to another media-feeding frenzy that took place at the same time: \u201cAlmost like Kyle Rittenhouse \u2026 the situation becomes very politicized,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Scheller, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lt-col-scheller-disses-trump-rather-sit-in-jail-than-work-with-you\">criticized<\/a> former President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that America faces \u201ca dangerous time\u201d and needs to \u201cstabilize\u201d itself from the onslaughts of both \u201cthe extreme Right\u201d and \u201cthe extreme Left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just fundamentally, philosophically disagree with these people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>America must rejuvenate its military power \u201cotherwise we\u2019re going to continue to slide into degradation of our national power and our foreign diplomacy abilities, and we will allow somebody else to dictate the terms out there in the global arena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scheller, a 17-year veteran of the Marine Corps, captured the national imagination when he demanded politicians take responsibility for the failure of America\u2019s endless foreign entanglements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m willing to risk my current battalion commander seat, my retirement, my family stability, to say some of the things that I want to say, I think it gives me some moral high ground to demand the same honesty, integrity, accountability from my senior leaders,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-marine-commander-fired-after-demanding-accountability-from-biden-admin-over-afghanistan-disaster\">said<\/a> in his viral video. \u201cPeople are upset because their senior leaders let them down, and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability, are saying, \u2018We messed this up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout that, we just keep repeating the same mistakes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Even CNN said Biden\u2019s bungling of the withdrawal, which left thousands of American citizens stranded behind enemy lines, was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-administration-this-is-not-saigon-cnn-its-worse-than-saigon\">worse than Saigon<\/a>\u201d in 1975.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Scheller told Solomon this week that the video\u2019s resonance took him by surprise. \u201cWhen I posted it, I had no idea that it would take off in the manner that it did,\u201d he said. But he said he feared \u201conly 200 people\u201d seeing it and still being fired for voicing his views. \u201cAs it played out, it reached a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated that the fault for the military\u2019s 20-year quagmire in Afghanistan lay with its elected, political leaders, not the men in uniform. He said, \u201cThe military at the tactical level is very effective. Where we are failing in wars is at the operational level and the strategic level \u2014 that\u2019s, the general officer to the political realm,\u201d which \u201cconsistently is failing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After posting his video, Scheller was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/marine-officer-who-criticized-military-leadership-over-bidens-afghanistan-withdrawal-thrown-in-brig\">thrown in the brig<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lt-col-stuart-scheller-faces-six-charges-in-court-martial-marine-corps-scoured-his-social-media-report\">slapped with six charges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Article 88 (Contempt toward officials)Article 89 (Disrespect toward superior commissioned officers)Article 90 (Willfully disobeying a superior commissioned officer)Article 92 (Dereliction in the performance of duties)Article 92 (Failure to obey order or regulation)Article 133: (Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman)<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/marine-who-called-out-bidens-afghanistan-debacle-pleads-guilty-to-all-charges-at-court-martial\">entered a guilty plea<\/a> to all charges in October and received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10343279\/Former-Lt-Col-Stuart-Scheller-reveals-discharged-Marine-Corps.html\">general discharge<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis crime was speaking truth to power, and power couldn\u2019t handle it,\u201d Stu Scheller Sr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/parents-of-imprisoned-marine-his-crime-was-speaking-truth-to-power-and-power-couldnt-handle-it\">told<\/a> Fox News host Tucker Carlson last September.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former U.S. Marine lieutenant colonel removed from the military after his video condemning President Joe Biden\u2019s calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan went viral, has announced he might run for elected office in 2024. \u201cI\u2019ll probably jump into a race in \u201924,\u201d former Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller told the \u201cJohn Solomon Reports\u201d podcast on Wednesday. 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