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Pentagon official who spread conspiracies, disparaged immigrants and refugees gets spot on influential West Point advisory board
A senior adviser at the Pentagon with a history of disparaging refugees and immigrants, spreading conspiracies, and other controversial rhetoric was nominated by President Donald Trump on Tuesday for a spot on West Point's advisory board.
Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor, a West Point graduate, will sit on West Point's Board of Visitors, along with other appointees and members of Congress. The board carries out inquiries into the military academy's "morale and discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and academic methods." It meets several times a year and provides independent advice and recommendations to the President on the military academy.
Macgregor's appointment, which typically involves serving out a three-year term, and does not require Senate confirmation, comes at a time when West Point is grappling with racism on campus and in its institutions.
Since his appointment, CNN has uncovered comments by the retired colonel claiming an "entitled" "underclass" concentrated in "large urban areas" poses a threat to society and that there were more White, mostly Irish "slaves" than African slaves in America in the late 1700s.
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