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Showing Original Post only (View all)'These are dictator moves': Defense officials alarmed as Trump installs more loyalists at the Pentag [View all]
Source: Business Insider
President Trump is continuing to remove senior defence officials and replace them with loyalists, creating growing alarm in the Pentagon that his rapid overhaul of key staff could undermine national security.
Since Trump fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Monday, three other Defense Department officials have either resigned or been sacked. Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy James Anderson quit on Tuesday after clashes with the White House over its attempts to insert controversial figures into top Pentagon positions.
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One defense official was quoted by CNN as saying: "This is scary. It's very unsettling" adding that "these are dictator moves."
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House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith said in a statement on Tuesday that the "gutting" of the department ought to "alarm" Americans.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-installs-loyalists-at-the-pentagon-officials-sound-alarm-2020-11
Trump is a certifiably insane madman, just like Hitler.