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Opinion: The Hidden Pattern Behind Trump’s Military Purge

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The Trump administration’s criteria for who gets to stay in the military “couldn’t be more obvious” — at least, that’s according to The New Abnormal’s Andy Levy.

Over the past weekend, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth respectively laid off two of the military and the navy’s highest-ranking members CQ Brown Jr. and Lisa Franchetti. “The two top generals that were fired were a Black man and woman. None of the white men who lead the other services were fired,” Levy noted to co-host Danielle Moodie. “This is just another in a series of amazing coincidences that keeps happening, isn’t it?”

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