Why Trump is suddenly replacing Pentagon officials with loyalists

[TomCADem]

The fact that Republicans are now suddenly acting shocked by the President's actions is laughable. Most Republicans were complicit toward the very end with a majority of the House Republicans continuing to support the President's efforts to seize power. We can't forget that this was a deliberate effort by Trump supported by most House Republicans and some Senate Republicans to seize power.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-trump-is-suddenly-replacing-pentagon-officials-with-loyalists/ar-BB1aVgbp

A retired brigadier general who called former President Barack Obama a terrorist. A former staffer to Republican Rep. Devin Nunes who wrote a memo accusing federal investigators of harboring anti-Trump bias. And a close ally of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn whom a former intelligence official described to me as “shady” and “inherently untrustworthy.”

Those are the three men replacing top civilian officials at the Pentagon this week, a swift set of personnel changes that has critics fearing the president’s plans for the military and has White House allies cheering that he’s finally routed the “deep state.”

After President Donald Trump fired Mark Esper as defense secretary on November 9, it seemed likely that further changes to the Pentagon’s senior civilian leadership would follow. After all, Trump had long empowered John McEntee, his 30-year-old former personal aide whom he tapped to run the Presidential Personnel Office in February, to identify any federal officials suspected of working against the White House’s agenda and replace them with administration loyalists.

The Defense Department was always a top target due to its many clashes with the president and other top White House officials like National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, administration sources told me, namely over troop withdrawals and the use of active-duty military to quell anti-racism and anti-police-brutality protests.

[RussBLib]

1. one more thing to stress over

I choose to look away. Let everyone else stress!

Sorry, but we all need a break now and then.

[samsingh]

2. Was it to support the planned insurrection?

[beachbumbob]

3. politcal appointees and loyalist in civilian positions will have no one that would follow

their orders if the orders endangered the constitution and function of our govt,

[dchill]

4. Why? To be sure no one would interfere with insurrection.

[onetexan]

9. Yup. K&R

[exboyfil]

5. This is actually an argument

to blast through any of the government service protections or plum appointments that Trump made. Some have been shown to be traitors, we need to clean them all out. Pass legislation if necessary.

[wishstar]

6. Gov. Hogan said after being rebuffed, took him 90 minutes for Pentagon to allow MD Nat Guard in

disgrace that there seems to have been a Federal stand down policy in place for Trumpers' coup attempt of Jan 6.

[CentralMass]

10. That is very alarming and "telling".

[Squinch]

7. Biden can fire these guys, right? Does anyone know?

[RockRaven]

8. Absolutely. But we need to get to President Biden without them aiding in a coup before that

can happen.

[Squinch]

11. Yeah. You know that photo of the cat holding onto the wall with its claws? That's us.

[msfiddlestix]

12. Which is why most of us feared this Coup could and would be carried out

these particular installments were done 2 months ago. Since this reported at the time I have wondered if they could succeed in accomplishing their pre planned coup.

If events on Wednesday helped or hurt this intended goal remains to be see until Biden's administration is established.

My ongoing concern will be the traitors that remain in place at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs, all of the National security agencies and ancillary posts.

That worries me greatly.

[TomCADem]

13. Yet, Instead of Objecting, Most Elected Republicans Happily Played Along

I think Congressional Republicans were hoping to go through the motions of trying to oppose Biden taking office based on the election fraud conspiracies. Republicans like Cruz and Hawley were trying to outdo each other in an attempt to play the hero and ingratiate themselves to the GOP's conspiracy loving base. However, it got away from them when the protesters tried to take over the Capitol and it was clear that Trump was truly willing to do anything to hold on to power even if it included trying to take them out.

[msfiddlestix]

14. exactly

how will we allow them to continue occupying seats of power. They aided and abetted and participated in an attack on our country.

[pecosbob]

15. We do know that the Pentagon/DoD refused requests for riot gear from Capitol Police...twice.

That order brought about the death of the Capitol Police officer hit in the head with a fire extinguisher who later died from a stroke.