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Gaetz would gladly carry out such a purge.

Donald Trump, claiming a mandate from his narrow popular vote win, intends to purge the U.S. military from top to bottom and put a Fox News host in charge of the whole thing, hoping to root out any “woke” dissenters and install loyalists in their place who will not object to his using America’s armed forces in ways that may be ill-advised, malicious or both.

Speaking on a right-wing podcast before he was chosen to lead the Pentagon, the 44-year-old veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan made the case for a purge, calling for the termination of “any general, any admiral, whatever,” who had promoted “woke s**t,” per The Washington Post.

Dawit was among a group of about two dozen individuals, including senior cabinet ministers, members of parliament and independent journalists, arrested in a government purge.

He has also promised to fire senior military officers whose political views he dislikes and to purge the CIA and the FBI, accusing both agencies of “persecuting” conservatives.