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Administration Insiders: Pentagon House Cleaning of Never Trumpers Looms
[Breitbart] President Trump’s firing of John Rood, the top policy official at the Pentagon, is a sign the agency is not immune from an effort to purge from influential positions across the administration "snakes" who do not support the president, according to four current and former officials.Rood had been on the chopping block for months, but his firing just last week amid a spate of other personnel changes shows that the president is finally ready to clean house at a department that has tried to distance itself from politics, they said. "All of them are getting tossed," a senior administration official told Breitbart News. "You’re either on the team or you’re out, everywhere." Political appointees like Rood serve the administration and at the president’s prerogative. However, it was well-known at the Pentagon and beyond that Rood was not a supporter of the president. remember, though: "a department that has tried to distance itself from politics" "Plenty of people from the transition and at the National Security Council knew Rood was not playing on the same team as the president when it came to policy or personnel," a defense official told Breitbart News after his firing. "Complaints have made it to the highest levels at the White House for awhile now." At at least two meetings he held for staff, Rood spoke profusely and glowingly about the late Sen. John McCain, but did not once mention the president, according to the defense official. Related: John Rood: 2020-02-20 Trump forces out top Pentagon policy chief who warned against withholding aid from the Ukraine, as President's impeachment revenge continues John Rood: 2020-02-05 US now arms submarines with ‘low-yield' W76-2 nukes, less powerful than Hiroshima bomb John Rood: 2019-07-21 Pentagon sees high risk of ‘unintended conflict' with Iran Posted by: Besoeker 2020-02-27 |
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