Trump’s First Executive Order May Be a Military Purge
Trump’s transition team has a “warrior board” executive order ready for the president-elect’s desk.
An executive order draft is floating around MAGA world that would establish a Trump-appointed “warrior board” with the power to purge any three- or four-star generals as it sees fit. The board would send its dismissal recommendations to Trump and they would be acted upon within 30 days.
The draft executive order, which was first reported on by The Wall Street Journal, makes it easy to quickly remove military officials “lacking in requisite leadership qualities” but leaves open the question of what those requisite qualities are. The executive order draws on General George C. Marshall’s 1940 creation of a “plucking board” led by retired general officers to “remove from line promotion any officer for reasons deemed good and sufficient.” But that plucking board was to uplift young officers with high potential, not to cull anyone not perfectly aligned with MAGA.
It’s not yet clear if Trump will sign the executive order, but Trump has held vitriol toward certain military leaders for some time now.
The Trump Regime could order a fascistic purge of military leaders not aligned with Donald Trump’s anti-American vision that would turn the civilian nonpartisan military to a tool pledging loyalty to Trump über alles and not the Constitution.
A vote for Trump was essentially a vote for fascism, and this action is one of many bad things he would do to the fabric of the nation.
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