In serious breach of civ-mil norms, Trump exhorts sailors at USS Ford commissioning to support him

[riversedge]

This can not go unchecked. Please call all your congress critters to object.

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Phillip Carter‏Verified account @Carter_PE

In serious breach of civ-mil norms, Trump exhorts sailors at USS Ford commissioning to support him politically https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/22/trump-denounces-illegal-leaks-in-new-accounts-of-his-campaigns-contact-with-russia/?utm_term=.0e7b7ee17aef …

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Brendan Nyhan‏Verified account @BrendanNyhan 2h2 hours ago

Brendan Nyhan Retweeted Tom Nichols

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Tom NicholsVerified account @RadioFreeTom

The President telling the military to call their members of Congress is really a shocking thing, if we were capable of being shocked.
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Indivisible WI-03‏ @IndivisibleWI03 13h13 hours ago

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I fear he will give an illegal order and expect obedience.

Are the Joint Chiefs preparing for this? Are COs and XOs?
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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. I do not recall Pres. Obama doing that.....

Ever!

[Foamfollower]

4. No president in history has ever done that.

Until now.

That's Hitler level shit.

[Achilleaze]

2. Patriots support the United States of America

republican traitors against America give their submissive support upon command to Comrade Casino, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.

Make no mistake.

[tblue37]

3. Sort of like what he did when he spoke at the CIA. nt

[dalton99a]

5. Rules and norms don't apply to him

[riversedge]

6. The Admirals and Generals need to step up and put a stop to this crap.

[malaise]

7. Rules, laws, conventions, etc do not apply to Groper Don the Con

There is no low too low for this short-fingered, racist vulgarian.

[Solly Mack]

8. Trump has been eroding civilian control of the military. His plan to avoid personal responsibility

by giving over to the generals in decision making was an erosion of civilian control.

This is Trump's way of saying don't blame me, blame the generals - they had control.

Civilian control for a reason - so that power hungry officers don't start wars on their own. As checks and balances on potential abuse. So that the possibility of a military coup is slim. The actions of an unchecked officer could actually change/set foreign policy - for the worse.

Some may call it giving the military freedom (idiots would) and some may call it putting the military back into the hands of the experts (idiots would) - but what it is is relinquishing control over the troops and troop movements by the so-called Commander-in-chief without any oversight which does nothing but allow for abuse.

The military is secretive enough as it is - too secretive - and without civilian oversight, that will only get worse.

[HAB911]

10. +++++++++++

[spanone]

9. K&R...

[Blue_Tires]

11. um... yeah... don't the military already have their own insurance plans??

[riversedge]

12. Don't know for sure. But these military folks have families and friends to call for.

[ProudLib72]

13. Why hasn't Newt said anything about this?

Where is Newt? I need Newt to give me guidance on what I should think!

Oh, here he is plugging his stupid book.

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