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Army Sec. Was Told Trump Wouldn’t Want to Stand Next to Black Female Officer: Report

Rolling Stone·@RyanBort·2 months ago
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By Ryan Bort Donald Trump is known to muse about how the military men he interacts with as president are straight out of “central casting.” He doesn’t seem to want his movie to include any Black women, according to a report released Friday by The New York Times. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently blocked the promotion of four Army officers to become single-star generals, the Times reports. Two of the officers Hegseth took off the list are Black, and the other two are women. Hegseth has been on a crusade to eradicate “woke” diversity initiatives from the military, and since taking over the Pentagon has made a series of unusual moves targeting people of color and women. Hegseth had reportedly been pressuring Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll to remove the four names from the promotion list, but Driscoll refused, defending the officers as qualified. The Times highlights another incident last summer, in which Hegseth’s chief of staff, Ricky Buria, was upset that Driscoll tapped Maj. Gen.…

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