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Joint Chiefs chair says he plans to stay on under Trump
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., who President Trump had threatened to fire once in power, on Monday said he plans to remain the country’s highest-ranking military official.
“That’s my plan,” he told reporters while leaving the U.S. Capitol Building, as
reported by CNN.
Brown, who attended Trump’s inauguration ceremony in the Capitol rotunda, for months has been the target of Trump’s and his associates’ vows to immediately fire U.S. military leaders who they view as too focused on diversity initiatives.
Among those attacking Brown was
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for Defense secretary, who said on a podcast in early November that Brown, who is Black, needed to be fired.
“First of all, you got to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that was involved in any of the DEI woke s–t has got to go,” Hegseth said on the “Shawn Ryan Show.”
That rhetoric seemed to change after Trump and Brown met in a luxury box at the Army-Navy football game in December.