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The Trump administration’s criteria for who gets to stay in the military “couldn’t be more obvious” — at least, that’s according to The New Abnormal’s Andy Levy.
Over the past weekend, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth respectively laid off two of the military and the navy’s highest-ranking members, CQ Brown Jr. and Lisa Franchetti. “The two top generals that were fired were a Black man and a woman. None of the white men who lead the other services were fired,” Levy noted to co-host Danielle Moodie. “This is just another in a series of amazing coincidences that keeps happening, isn’t it?”
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Then, justice correspondent at The Nation, Elie Mystal, joins the podcast to dissect the legal environment of Trump’s recent moves and Elon Musk’s seeming influence on the president—and potentially democracy.
Plus! New Republic contributing editor Meredith Shiner stops by to discuss the Democratic Party’s current state and why its leadership is frozen in time.
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