Trump Fires Top U.S. General In Unprecedented Pentagon Purge

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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President Trump makes an unprecedented shakeup at the Pentagon as he carries out a promise from Pete Hegseth before he even became the Secretary of Defense. In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership Friday night, President Donald Trump fired the top US general just moments before his defense secretary fired the chief of the US Navy and the vice chief of the Air Force. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.3	Our breaking news tonight, President Trump making an unprecedented shakeup at the Pentagon.
0:57.0	He's carrying out a promise from Pete Hagseth as well before he even became the Secretary of Defense.
1:03.4	Well, first of all, you've got to fire, you know, you've got to fire the chairman of joint chiefs and you've got to fire this.
1:08.4	I mean, obviously going to bring in a new secretary of defense, but any general that was involved, General Admiral, whatever that was
1:13.1	involved in any of the DEI woke, it's got to go.
1:17.5	Well, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs talking about, that's General Charles Q. Brown.
1:22.7	Well, President Trump announced that he was fired a short time ago after Heggsath called
1:27.3	the general to tell him
1:28.5	he was removed. Brown was actually at the border just today. But his firing has been in the
1:34.4	works, frankly, for weeks. Trump has long been railing about diversity in the military,
1:39.0	and General Brown is a frequent target of the right, as you know. It's only the second black
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