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'Off the charts': Trump admin slammed for 'despicable' deletion of fallen heroes' names

Erasing the Dead to Protect the PresidentThe StoryThe Pentagon reportedly dropped four US service members from the Iran war dead list after their deaths, with the explanation that they died after Trump declared a cease-fire. That is the factual core here. Everything else is the machinery built around it: a government adjusting the public record in a way that makes the president look cleaner than the reality he created.Who Holds PowerThe decision sits with the Trump administration, not with grieving families, not with reporters, and not with the public. The institutional power belongs to the…

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