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TRUMPs REVENGE -The Friday Night Massacre Sends an Ominous Message to Military
TRUMPs REVENGE - Friday Night Massacre Sent a Stark Message That Could Not Be Clearer
Trump Abruptly Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman, & Other TOP Pentagon Leaders
Trump Fires BLACK Joint Chiefs Chair Hegseth Accused of Promoting Diversity
The Guardian 22 FEB 2025
TRUMPs unprecedented decision to oust C.Q. Brown as Chair of The Joint Chiefs of Staff along with other TOP military leaders triggered a Trump-era '''Friday night massacre''' that sent an ominous message to the rest of the US Armed Forces.
US secretary of defense Hegseth had questioned whether history-making air force general CQ Brown Jr got job because of race
Trump abruptly fired the air force general CQ Brown Jr as chair of the joint chiefs of staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making Black fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to purge the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.
The ouster of the second Black general to serve as chair of the joint chiefs comes three months after Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, outlined a plan for ridding the US military of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts during a podcast interview.
First of all, you've got to fire the chairman of the joint chiefs, Hegseth said during a November interview on the Shawn Ryan Show. Any general that was involved, general, admiral, or whatever, that was involved in any of that DEI woke **** has got to go.
Although Hegseth had been meeting regularly with Brown since the former Fox News host took over the top Pentagon job last month, he had openly questioned whether Brown had been named chair because he was Black.
Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We'll never know, but always doubt which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesnt really much matter, Hegseth wrote in one of his books.
Brown had been praised, including by Time, for breaking racial barriers in the military and for his warfighter credentials. When he was sworn in as the air force chief of staff in 2020, during the first Trump administration, Brown acknowledged previous US military service members who had been denied advancement because of their race, Time reported. It is due to their trials and tribulations in breaking barriers that I can address you today as the air force chief of staff, Brown said.
In 2020, Trump himself had celebrated Browns confirmation on social media as the USAs first ever African American military service chief and noted that he had appointed him to that role. Browns experience as the former commander of Pacific air forces also meant he was highly qualified to deter China and reassure allies in the Indo-Pacific, Time noted that year.
Under Trump, we are putting in place new leadership that will focus our military on its core mission of deterring, fighting and winning wars, Hegseth said in a statement after Browns firing, calling Brown a thoughtful adviser
In a post on his social media platform Friday evening, Trump announced he would replace Brown with retired Lt Gen Dan Razin Caine, a retired military leader Trump said had been passed over for promotion by Sleepy Joe Biden
Trump has repeatedly said that Caine impressed him during his first administration by assuring him that the Islamic State could be defeated very rapidly.
An opinion piece published hours after the Pentagon shake-up that the military was the last piece Donald Trump needed to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the US government after installing MAGA loyalists inside the Justice Department, FBI, and intelligence services.
That sobering connection left Nichols warning readers of the dangers the remarkable move presents to the country. Trump tonight began a purge of the senior ranks of the United States armed forces in an apparent effort to intimidate the military and create an officer corps personally loyal to him, the anti-Trump conservative wrote.
None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or lethality, or promoting warfighters, or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, Nichols concluded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHwVpP1hiPY
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