President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House has led to soaring morale at the Pentagon, retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“He is carrying a big stick and speaking firmly. It has a reverberating effect back here at home, especially in the Pentagon,” Holt told Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.”

The military wants to be led, he said, “by a no-BS, constitutionally focused … leader who believes in peace through strength — the highest form of readiness.”

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