Trump insists his relationship with the military is solid and that he didn't see the recent remarks from Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Mark Milley and Mark Esper, Trump's defense secretary, as significant.
at the Defense Department and John Kelly at the Department of Homeland Security. Both publicly criticized Trump and Pentagon leaders after the Lafayette Square incident.
“He has this conception of generals as tough guys and killers, which is somewhat true,” Cohen said. But “what he didn’t recognize is that when he began to talk about using the military to crush demonstrations in the American streets, that would just go completely against what the military code is.” Trump's inclination is to force senior Pentagon leaders, civilian and military, to choose between different visions of the military's role – “and then to banish to outer reaches of his realm anyone who chooses against the president’s parochial perspective," Feaver said.
In an interview with USA TODAY, the superintendent of West Point, Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams, who is African-American, said that the school does not have a systemic problem with racism and that the cadet who posted the video could be redeemed. The cadet recently completed his sophomore year but was not identified by name by Williams. The cadet did not reply to an email and declined to comment to USA TODAY, according to a West Point official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing case.
The cadet's actions are an aberration and do not reflect a systemic problem with racism at West Point, Williams said. Character development is stressed during the 47 months of instruction at the academy, and some cadets require the full time on campus to achieve the standard West Point requires, Williams said.
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