Admin. Insiders: Pentagon House Cleaning of Never Trumpers Looms

President Trump’s firing of John Rood, the top policy official at the Pentagon, is a sign the agency is not immune from an effort to purge from influential positions across the administration “snakes” who do not support the president, according to four current and former officials.Rood had been on the chopping block for months, but his firing just last week amid a spate of other personnel changes shows that the president is finally ready to clean house at a department that has tried to distance itself from politics, they said.“All of them are getting tossed,” a senior administration official told Breitbart News. The official said it prevented progress on things that could have worsened military tensions with Iran, particularly under former National Security Adviser John Bolton.And the official also said frustration with Rood caused some officials to leave, including some Never Trumpers.The second defense official said there is a sense of a “reckoning coming” for those who do not support the president or are trying to undermine his policies.The second administration official pointed to the recent firing of the entire White House Presidential Personnel Office (PPO), which is responsible for administration appointments and all the “Never Trumpers” who managed to get in, as a sign, and confirmed a recent Axios report that Never Trumpers are to be either purged or not promoted by shifting them to a different agency.The second administration official suggested the Johnny McEntee, the new leader of PPO, has his work cut out for him at the Pentagon.