President Donald Trump fired Chair of the Joint Chiefs Gen. C.Q. Brown on Friday night, and said he intends to dismiss the Navy’s top admiral and the Air Force’s second in command — an unprecedented shakeup of the Pentagon’s top brass that will trigger ripple effects throughout the military.

Trump, in a Truth Social post, said he was nominating retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to take Brown’s place. Caine is a partner at Shield Capital, a venture capital firm.

Trump also has claimed Caine donned a ‘MAGA’ hat during their 2018 meeting in Iraq, which is against military regulations.

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    Worth reminding people that this is a guy who has admitted in interviews to owning a copy of Mein Kempf, had a cousin that gave him a copy of ‘My New Order’ (Trump’s collected speeches in English) which he kept in his bedside cabinet and was known to his then wife and friends for many years. And that the same cousin used to “frequently greet him” in the 1990s with a casual “Heil Hitler”…

    All of this was public knowledge prior to his election wins.

    I’m sure the similarities in Trump’s actions to the Nazi playbook are all just coincidences though right? And we’re all idiots and hyperbolic for calling it out? That’s what his supporters have always told me in the past, and what the right-wing media machine told them to say (Fox/Sky/Rogan/Shapiro/etc).

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-adolf-hitler-books-bedside-cabinet-ex-wife-ivana-trump-vanity-fair-1990-a7639041.html