➡ The superintendent of West Point allowed DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) practices, which some view as harmful, to continue in the military. Critics argue that DEI is a form of brainwashing and alienates military personnel from the country they’re supposed to protect. There’s a push to remove DEI from the military, with supporters believing that if President Trump achieves this, he’ll be remembered as a great president. The situation is complex, with some military leaders showing disdain for those criticizing them.

If there’s one thing that President Trump can do, if that’s the one thing he gets done, stamps out DEI in the military, he will go down in history as a great president. A judicial watch never stops. Today is May 30th, which is the traditional Memorial Day. As I said earlier last week, I said I’m sensitive about it because it’s also my birthday. I’m turning 57. I started at judicial watch when I was 30. Maybe I was younger than 30. Yeah, I started when I was, yeah, I started working. Well, officially I began as president and when I was 30.

I started working with judicial watch when I was 29. I’ve been here for 27 years celebrating my 57th birthday on the traditional Memorial Day. I don’t know why we don’t celebrate Memorial Day on Memorial Day. Well, I do. It was a stop to the government unions. But it’s my way of saying we’re concerned because of the service and sacrifices made by our military over the centuries, really, about how our military is being treated and whether that sacrifice is being honored in the current military. And that’s why we were so upset, as were many actual veterans, certainly Army veterans, but frankly, any patriot was upset when it was announced last year that West Point, the United States Military Academy at West Point, was changing its mission statement to remove duty, honor, and country from it.

Duty, honor, and country is the motto of the West Point, but it was, I think, after it was put up, the last time the mission statement was changed to include that was, I think, in 98. So I’ve been there for some time. And so when it was removed, people were upset because they knew what the Biden gang was up to. It was removed last year, diminishing core values as it relates to the military and its purpose. And so what Judicial Watch did was, as soon as we found out about it, we began asking questions and when we didn’t get answers, we sued.

And since then, we’ve gotten 400, at least the latest batch. It may be over the course of two disclosures, but this is about 450 pages of records. And they disclose, I tell you, if you’re in the military or a veteran, I don’t know if you’re going to want to read these records because you’ll probably get some, you know, you’re going to think you’re going to be, maybe have some bad memories of military bureaucracy, right? How they kind of justify and over, you know, with all the records about their terrible decision-making.

I mean, the military is famous for making decisions, good or bad, and, you know, making sure that there’s a triplicate of whatever the decision is. And these records detail the cover-up of the removal of duty, honor, and country from the mission statement. And so it was announced in March of last year. And what had happened was a critic of the Biden gang’s efforts to destroy our military attended the West Point border of advisors meeting. So the border of advisors is essentially a group of individuals appointed by the president. I think it’s appointed by, I think there are members of Congress who serve in ex officio on it as well.

So anyway, it’s kind of a, as you might imagine, it’s, it has a lot of interest on the board of board of visitors and they’re supposed to advise and help run the U.S. Military Academy. And the Air Force Academy has a board of advisors and, you know, so does the Navy, et cetera. The Denaville Academy as well. And so the representative of a group of critics of the transformation of the military and specifically the Army was there. And he found out that they just announced with no fair and fair that they were changing the mission statement.

And here’s what happened. Here’s the kind of the record of it, which was provided to us. Let’s go to that page, could you? The current mission or, or excuse me, the then mission statement read, to educate, train, and inspire the core cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of duty, honor, country, and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the nation as an officer in the United States Army. They changed it, and still not clear who the they is, to build, educate, train, and inspire the core of cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to Army values and ready for a lifetime of service to the Army and nation.

So duty, honor, or country was dropped unceremoniously by the leadership of the Biden administration’s Defense Department and West Point. And it caused quite the uproar both internally and among graduates, the long gray line as it’s called. And what was the response? Let’s come up with excuses and try to justify the rationale without explaining the basis for it. Typical bureaucratic response, and it’s clear from the records that we’ve uncovered in this whole group of records, and I encourage you to go and look at it. We put them all online, so you don’t want to argue, you know, I know there are people who hate Judicial Watch and hate me, and they don’t want to actually deal with what we’re saying, but for those of you who are normal patriotic Americans, go read this and weep.

And you’ll see how the bureaucracy in the military and at West Point was completely out of control, had contempt for its critics, had its contempt for tradition, had its contempt for really the whole Army tradition. All because of DEI. There’s no doubt about it. So the key records show that they were celebrating, the problem they had was it got out around the time they were celebrating what’s called Founders Day up at West Point, which commemorates the creation of the military academy, and I think the Army, forgive me on the history, those of you Army guys, in 1802 by Thomas Jefferson.

So there’s a lot of activity around West Point on Founders Day as a result, and so what the documents show is they sent out talking points to deal with the blowback on them destroying the mission statement of West Point, and they go through all this excuse-making and providing talking points for, quote, Founder Day’s speakers a few weeks after it was disclosed, they were, as I said, changing the mission statement. And this is, their argument is that, well, we’re not denying Army, you know, we’re not denying that we’re not changing the motto.

We’re just saying Army values, which is broader than the motto. These organize, so they said the motto was not added to the mission statement until 1998, as if that makes a difference. Why was it taken off? And this is what they tell their people to say, avoid saying removed, replaced, deleted, just refer to the updated mission statement and reinforce the motto remains unchanged. The talking points include, avoid the perception that the external review team, which by the way, and the documents show, include political appointees of Joe Biden at the Defense Department, was political or made the decision.

The academy selected them. So they’re misleading what’s going on here. Now, there may have been a review team that were, that was pushing this, but the final decision-making and the decision-making generally, according to the documents, included political appointees at the Pentagon. Academy leadership made decisions, misleading. The head of the Army made the decision, according to the documents, or at least was involved in the decision-making. And so they say the mission start, the mission statement points to Army values, of course, without the delineating them. Why not? Loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage.

And then they go after the group that highlighted the change. In the email traffic, let me get my press release out. There’s a lot of documents here. I spent the day looking at them, and I just got matter and matter, because I just saw a bureaucracy out of control. And I encourage you to go to the, because this group has been doing, as far as I’m concerned, the Lord’s work in highlighting this issue. The MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates, and they smear them as, quote, a small but vocal group of academy alumni who criticize the academy on our continued transformation efforts.

There you have it, folks, transformation efforts. That’s DEI. Proof positive. And in the talking points, they try to explain away their DEI obsessions, that they’re forcing West Point people to go through. The cadets up there, I call them people, the cadets. And when you look at the MacArthur group, the alumni group, they’re desperate about West Point. They feel that it’s failing our country. They highlight how ROTC officers in civilian schools have a greater success rate or are kept longer in the military than academy graduates. I didn’t know that. So you’re going to see all the garbage they have, all the time they spend defending DEI, attacking a group for highlighting that they were casually changing, removing the motto of West Point from the mission statement, and they spend all their time justifying it in bureaucraties.

I’ll tell you, Pete Hegseth has such a job to do there. And I know he’s been taking a leadership role at the direction of the Commander and Chief President Trump to erase DEI from the military. But the superintendent is still the superintendent of West Point. He allowed this to go on. He’s still there. Now, should he be fired? I don’t know. I don’t like to try to tell government officials to go and fire specific people. But certainly he should be held accountable for this. Because as far as I’m concerned, DEI is abuse of the troops, abuse of the cadets.

And we’ve highlighted it in Judicial Watch’s prior work that the cadets are forced to go through brainwashing. In June of 2022, we exposed how critical race theory instructions at the U.S. Military Academy included a training slide entitled Modern Day Slavery in the U.S.A. And that’s what they think of America. They’ve spent, and this is why the erasure of duty, honor, and country was so seen as such a moment, really, or an exhibit, exhibit A in the war on our military. Duty, honor, country. The left objects to those values. Of course, they want some language about army values because you see the MacArthur folks, they see that as a way to get around having any values at all.

But the goal of the left, through DEI, was to alienate our military, our rising officers in our academies specifically, from the country they’re swearing to protect. The communist left sees the military as a tool to oppress the population of a country, not a tool to protect the population of a country. And that’s why Pete Hexes’ role and goal to remove DEI from our military is so essential. And if there’s one thing that President Trump can do, if that’s the one thing he gets done, stamps out DEI in the military, he will go down in history as a great president.

And we’ve been working with retired military on the various academies trying to expose what’s been going on, but it’s important we know who’s involved and what they did, and these records help describe that. And you’ll see in the emails and such, the leadership had contempt for those criticizing them here. Really frustrating, or outrageous, or maybe both. [tr:trw].

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