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babylonsister

(171,092 posts)
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 01:00 PM Sep 2020

Pentagon Worries Trump May Pull Military Into Election

He is such a menace, to everyone.

https://politicalwire.com/2020/09/25/pentagon-worries-trump-may-pull-military-into-election/

Pentagon Worries Trump May Pull Military Into Election
September 25, 2020 at 10:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard


“Senior Pentagon leaders have a lot to worry about — Afghanistan, Russia, Iraq, Syria, Iran, China, Somalia, the Korean Peninsula. But chief among those concerns is whether their commander in chief might order American troops into any chaos around the coming elections,” the New York Times reports.

“The concerns are not unfounded. The Insurrection Act, a two-century-old law, enables a president to send in active-duty military troops to quell disturbances over the objections of governors.”
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Pentagon Worries Trump May Pull Military Into Election (Original Post) babylonsister Sep 2020 OP
#VeteransAgainstTrump BlueWavePsych Sep 2020 #1
trump is picking a fight with generals for a reason duforsure Sep 2020 #2

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
2. trump is picking a fight with generals for a reason
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 01:28 PM
Sep 2020

Just like he's done with the AG , and other agencies, he picks an issue he knows they won't agree on to use for their replacement with a corrupt loyalist who'll do whatever he wants, like Barr, and Dejoy have done for him. Then corrupt the military for him to use as his personal weapon. He's working to do this soon with the FBI so he can continue undermining anything against him to prevent it from exposing his corruption.

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