The incoming administration is reportedly planning to purge the ranks of the military leadership of any officers they perceive to be loyal to Trump’s former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who called the incoming former president “fascist to the core,” Reuters reports.
The Defense Secretary-designate, Fox News weekend bro Pete Hegseth, believes his mandate to overhaul the military includes removing any “woke” officers and presumably any officers who may have been appointed due to “DEI” requirements, making the military white and male. One source said the Joint Chiefs–made up of the heads of each branch of the military–is too crowded and needs to be thinned.
The real reason, of course, is a loyalty test: the incoming cabal wants to get rid of any officer who has anything but unabiding loyalty to Trump, so if your loyalty lies in with former chairman Mark Milley or with, say, the Constitution, you’ll be gone.