🎖️ Who is Trump’s pick for chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine? /// NPr

Caine has not served in any of the roles — Joint Chiefs vice chairman, chief of staff for one of the branches of the armed service, or head of a combatant command — that nominees are legally required to have performed in order to be nominated. The president, however, may waive those requirements if he “determines such action is necessary in the national interest.”

I have no idea if Caine is suited for the job. But it’s clearly not about qualifications or getting the best person for the job when you fire a four-star general and bring in a three-star general who has none of those qualifications.