Army Officials Pushed Back on Pop-Up MAGA Shop Ahead of Fort Bragg Trump Speech
Ahead of President Donald Trump’s rally-style appearance at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Tuesday, Army officials raised alarms over a vendor planning to sell Trump-branded merchandise on site. They feared selling the merchandise could undermine the military’s carefully maintained image of political neutrality, according to two officials familiar with the internal pushback. But on Tuesday, […]
Biden Pushed Army's Gaza Pier over Warnings It Would Undercut Other Aid Routes, Watchdog Says
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden ordered the construction of a temporary pier to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza earlier this year even as some staffers for the U.S. Agency for International Development expressed concerns that the effort would be difficult to pull off and undercut the effort to persuade Israel to open “more efficient” land […]