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A disturbing report from The Wall Street Journal says that Donald Trump’s transition team is drafting an executive order to create a military review body that could allow his administration to remove three- and four-star officers more easily.
Purportedly, this “warrior board” would consist of retired senior military personnel. The Journal, whose reporters have seen a draft of this order, says it allows the removal of officers “lacking in requisite leadership qualities” as quickly as 30 days from their review and could force them to retire.
The speculation that this board would be a way for Trump to create a military that is loyal to him above all else is not far-fetched. Trump’s former White House chief of staff John Kelly has said that Trump desired “generals like Adolf Hitler had.” In the weeks leading up to Election Day, Trump was promoting ludicrously offensive and reactionary ads attacking “Comrade Kamala Harris” and her “WOKE MILITARY.”
