President Joe Biden’s pick to command the U.S. Army in Europe and Africa has been promoted to full general. Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue was initially delayed due to his involvement in the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal.
Donahue was the commander of the 82nd Airborne during the withdrawal, which left billions of dollars of military equipment to the Taliban. He is now the commanding general of the Army’s 18th Airborne Corps, Politico reported.
According to reports, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), a strong critic of the withdrawal, delayed the promotion.
President-elect Donald Trump has called the 2021 withdrawal the “single most embarrassing and humiliating period in the history of our country.”
“I was all set up to withdraw with dignity and tremendous strength,” Trump told “Life, Liberty & Levin” host Mark Levin. “Nobody was going to be killed. We weren’t leaving $85 billion behind; we weren’t leaving 10 cents behind. I said, ‘Every bolt, every screw, every nail comes out.’”
Trump’s transition team has also reportedly compiled a list of senior current and former U.S. military officers involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal.
American Faith reported that the transition team discussed a draft executive order that would establish a “warrior board” of former generals and military personnel to review three and four-star officers and recommend their removal.
The draft order, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, would allow generals and admirals “lacking in requisite leadership qualities” to be removed and follow through on Trump’s goal to fire “woke generals.”
Trump-Vance Transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told the WSJ, “The American people reelected President Trump by a resounding margin giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail. He will deliver.”
