A retired Army colonel turned social media influencer, who has worked with the Pentagon to promote Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s agenda, has a history of praising dictators, denigrating women and minorities, and suggesting that only people with children should be allowed to vote.
\n\nKurt Schlichter has over 620,000 followers on X and has regularly posted in support of Hegseth’s anti-woke agenda. Last month, as part of an investigation into the Pentagon’s employment of influencers in civilian roles, The Washington Post found that Schlichter was one of several individuals to be given active government email addresses at the time and assigned to the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness’s office. According to reporting from the Post, Schlichter appears in the government database with the designation of “HQE,” which could stand for “highly qualified expert.”
\n\nSchlichter confirmed that he was a civilian government employee, working as part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges.
\n\nWhat wasn’t reported, however, were Schlichter’s posts on social media and other platforms in recent years that highlight extremist, anti-democratic worldviews. WIRED has reviewed many of these posts.
\n\n“The Department was proud to have a group of patriotic civilians and…
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