🚨🚨🚨SCOOP: The Pentagon’s acting policy chief resigned on Tuesday after falling out of favor with the White House, raising fears of a post-election exodus at the Defense Department politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
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The departure of James Anderson, the acting undersecretary of defense for policy, potentially paves the way for Anthony Tata, Trump’s controversial nominee for the top policy job who was pulled from contention due to Islamophobic tweets, to take over the policy shop
After the White House announced his nomination this year, CNN's @KFILE unearthed tweets by Tata calling Obama a “terrorist leader” and referring to Islam as the "most oppressive violent religion I know of"
Tata, who was a frequent Fox News guest, also derided House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on Twitter, and shared an article that promoted a conspiracy theory that Obama was a "Manchurian candidate.” Tata later said he regretted the now-deleted tweets
Here is a copy of Anderson's resignation letter politico.com/f/?id=00000175…
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