Hegseth Fires Top General, Holds Up Promotions Of Black And Women Officers
Donald Trump's Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth continues to fire top-ranking military leaders while also refusing to promote Black and women senior officers who have already gone through a vigorous vetting process.
Hegseth's hatred of diversity in the military ranks is well known and NBC news reports,"Donald Trump's Secretary of Defense continues to fire top-ranking military leaders offer mild resistance to some of his commands while also refusing to promote black and women senior officers who have already been vetted.
The NY Times broke this news back in March:
Two of the officers targeted by Mr. Hegseth are Black, and two are women on a promotion list that consists of about three dozen officers, most of whom are white men, senior military officials said.
Mr. Hegseth had been pressing senior Army leaders, including Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, for months to remove the officers’ names, military officials said. But Mr. Driscoll, citing the officers’ decades-long records of exemplary service, had repeatedly refused.
Whiskey Pete's Christian nationalist views are well known, and now he's taking it out on qualified senior officers who earned their promotions, but because of their gender or skin color are now being blocked by this overstimulated jackass.