Why would a lame-duck president* start filling the Pentagon with flunkies and lickspittles? Hmmm.....
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 10, 2020
Why would a lame duck one-term @POTUS quickly purge his civilian leadership team from the Pentagon and replace them with unqualified Trumpist puppets? I suspect @realDonaldTrump has some foreign debts to repay during his final days in office and wants to eliminate any resistance.
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) November 10, 2020
There's no non-disturbing explanation for removing the entire Pentagon civilian leadership and replacing them with a bunch of Trump acolytes during a lame duck presidency. https://t.co/eNtIhKhsha
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) November 10, 2020
Pentagon finally confirms near total decapitation of civilian leadership in the last 24 hours. Secretary of Defense Esper fired Monday, the top Pentagon Policy official, top Defense Department intelligence official, and chief of staff to the Defense Secretary all out today
— Ryan Browne (@rabrowne75) November 10, 2020
The WH is firing top leaders at the Pentagon while the president denies the election results https://t.co/G2F4Tmqfpn
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 10, 2020
Trump administration removes senior defense officials and installs loyalists, triggering alarm at Pentagonhttps://t.co/79SFi30VkF
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) November 11, 2020
#US: The Trump regime is currently removing civilian leadership from the Pentagon and replacing key positions with Trump loyalists, in a move feared to be a precursor to a coup d'etat in the United States. https://t.co/2Ego5QAGAy
— Anonymous 👥 (@YourAnonCentral) November 10, 2020
Anyone who dismisses @BillKristol concerns about how far this might go hasnt been paying attention. We've had 4 years of "they won't do that" & they did. @GOP now craves a fascist autocracy with the fire of 1,000 suns. Trump's up to something in the Pentagon. This will get ugly.
— Kurt "Mask Up, Vote Early" Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) November 11, 2020
BREAKING: Several loyalists to President Trump were promoted to top roles in the Pentagon on Tuesday after several top officials tendered their resignations following the ouster of Defense Sec. Esper. https://t.co/fxueGsneb1
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 11, 2020
So, over at the Pentagon... via @attackerman https://t.co/Ho01d8vhmP pic.twitter.com/HQnQpRlL93
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 11, 2020
What happened at the Pentagon in the last 36 hours is pretty unreal. https://t.co/AAs3CONIaL
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 11, 2020
Trump is doing something ominous in the Pentagon this week. And I fear we'll find out soon enough. https://t.co/cEAZdeUppk
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) November 11, 2020
Anthony Tata is an Islamophobic conspiracy theorist who is so unqualified and ill-suited for a senior defense position that his confirmation hearing was pulled. He doesn’t belong within 100 miles of the Pentagon. https://t.co/B7P5dNZ0x0
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) November 10, 2020
"This is scary, it's very unsettling," one defense official told CNN. "These are dictator moves."
— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) November 11, 2020
Trump administration removes senior defense officials and installs loyalists, triggering alarm at Pentagon - CNNPolitics https://t.co/W17QWOer6e
"Trump’s Defense Department purge is deeply dangerous to our national security—first firing SecDef Esper by tweet & now promoting a known racist Islamophobe," the Senate Armed Services Committee member @SenBlumenthal tweeted.https://t.co/VKoEzDPqbu
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) November 11, 2020
folks, what's going on here? https://t.co/08Fnyy91Tk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2020
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