The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down

[dave8383]

I just can't imagine the why of this? What are they worried about?

The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down for no good reason

Trump wants to pull funding from Stars and Stripes, a newspaper for American troops that began in the Civil War and has been serving our soldiers.
Kathy KielyOpinion contributor

Even for those of us who are all too wearily familiar with President Donald Trump’s disdain for journalists, his administration’s latest attack on the free press is a bit of a jaw-dropper.

In a heretofore unpublicized recent memo, the Pentagon delivered an order to shutter Stars and Stripes, a newspaper that has been a lifeline and a voice for American troops since the Civil War. The memo orders the publisher of the news organization (which now publishes online as well as in print) to present a plan that “dissolves the Stars and Stripes” by Sept. 15 including "specific timeline for vacating government owned/leased space worldwide.”

“The last newspaper publication (in all forms) will be September 30, 2020,” writes Col. Paul Haverstick Jr., the memo’s author.

Trump and Stars and Stripes: attacking an American icon

 

[Crosscheck]

Trump simply saw the last poll where military members supported Biden over himself.

 

[Rexedgar]

Trump simply saw the last poll where military members supported Biden over himself.

A lot of truth in satire!

 

[rickc]

You are either with him or against him

Hell hath no fury like the orange man

 

[Thom Paine]

Appears it's all Pentagon decision making.. for budgeting and recognizing newspapers are becoming a thing of the past ... open to replacing it with another medium ...
Does Not appear that the President has direct influence in the decision...

Stars and Stripes, military newspaper for service members, in jeopardy of losing more than $15M in Pentagon funding