The Hidden Pattern Behind Trump’s Military Purge
The president seems to have a preference for who gets to stay in office.
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The Trump administration’s criteria for who gets to stay in the military “couldn’t be more obvious” — at least, that’s according to The New Abnormal’s Andy Levy.
Over the past weekend, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth respectively laid off two of the military and the navy’s highest-ranking members, CQ Brown Jr. and Lisa Franchetti. “The two top generals that were fired were a Black man and a woman. None of the white men who lead the other services were fired,” Levy noted to co-host Danielle Moodie. “This is just another in a series of amazing coincidences that keeps happening, isn’t it?”
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Plus! New Republic contributing editor Meredith Shiner stops by to discuss the Democratic Party’s current state and why its leadership is frozen in time.
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