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"If the people in your own government aren't obeying you, you have got to get rid of them & replace them with people who are responsive to what the president's trying to do," #JDVance said in an interview w/ Tucker Carlson before the election.
During the campaign, #Trump pledged to restore the name of a #Confederate general to a major #US #military base, reversing a change made after #GeorgeFloyd's killing.
The 4-star general, who is Black, issued a video message about #discrimination in the ranks in the days after the May 2020 murder of #GeorgeFloyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, & has been a voice in favor of #diversity in the #US #military.
…#Trump's vice president-elect, #JDVance, voted as a senator last year against confirming Brown to become the top U.S. military officer, & has been a critic of perceived resistance to Trump's orders within the #Pentagon.