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From @benjaminpenn and me: https://t.co/cH9OITQgLd
🚨 Republican Chairman David Johnson waterboarded his own 16-year-old daughter as punishment for not cleaning her room.
She told police she couldn't breathe for up to 30 seconds and feared for her life.
Right so lets say he crushes NHS waiting lists and spurs economic growth. But he was on the piss in Tel Aviv in 24 years ago.
Absolutionist pricks can't wait to start tearing down another Labour administration.
Here are some of the facts about Gen CD Donahue’s storied Army career. Hegseth is forcing him to retire with no explanation, sending shockwaves through the Army and Special Ops community where Gen Donahue is widely respected.
* Commander of Delta Force in Iraq and Syria during the ISIS fight
* Led the mission to capture the Benghazi planner in Libya
* Ordered to secure the Kabul Airport after a chaotic withdrawal; returned order to the airport; arranged for hundreds of evacuation flights saving tens of thousands of lives; was NOT in charge of security at Abbey Gate where Marines were in charge of securing that entrance to the airport where 13 Americans were killed by a suicide bomber
* coordinated military aid to Ukraine after the Russian invasion and knows more about lessons learned on the Ukraine battlefield and advances in drone warfare than any senior officer in the US military
* led humanitarian aid efforts as head of 82nd Airborne from post at Ft Bragg during NC floods two years ago
* stint as head of US Army Europe cut short and will require presidential waiver not to lose 4th Star and retirement benefits after Secretary Hegseth forced him to retire early, having not had his 4th Star for the requisite 3 years. He was 18 months into current assignment.
Whatever you think of Military policy, the decapitation of peoples careers who have done 30 years at the tip of the spear, for multiple Presidents, should cause a level of disgust people just don't seem to muster anymore.
Yesterday’s abrupt retirement announcement by Gen. Chris Donahue, the Commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa (USAREUR-AF) and NATO’s Allied Land Command, was made at the request of the Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, people familiar with the matter tell The Wall Street Journal.
Prior to this announcement, many believed Donahue was on a fast track to become Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, having led the Army’s Delta Force commandos in Iraq and Syria when it took the fight to Islamic State militants and was the “last man out” when the troops he commanded at the 82nd Airborne Division were called in to secure the 2021 evacuation of U.S. personnel and Afghan allies from Kabul, Afghanistan.
General Donahue’s removal is said to be part of an ongoing push by Hegseth to put his imprint on the military’s leadership, while squeezing out officers with track records of battlefield valor and command experience in favor of less accomplished political loyalists, officers that fully support both himself and President Trump.
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