New Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has made a clean sweep of the Pentagon’s Trumpified advisory boards.
The final weeks of Donald Trump’s term were quite busy, and not just because the Republican spent an inordinate amount of time plotting against his own country’s democracy. He also made more than a few personnel moves at the Pentagon.
Indeed, in his first big decision after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, the outgoing president fired then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper. As regular readers may recall, in the weeks that followed, Trump proceeded to oust a series of Pentagon officials while appointing unqualified loyalists to series of Defense boards and panels.
It was widely assumed that President Joe Biden’s team would show the Trump acolytes the door. Yesterday, new Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin did exactly that, making a clean sweep of the Pentagon’s Trumpified advisory boards. Continue reading.