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qdouble

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2. Where would they get their funding or authority?

Reply to Bluesaph (Original post)

Mon Nov 16, 2020, 06:21 AM

Nov 2020

Trump's presidency ends at noon on January 20th. Anyone in the military following Trump after that would be following unlawful orders. Also, all of the property of the military belongs to the United States government and all funding comes from the United States government.

If the United States was a small country, then it may have been worth worrying about Trump's coup attempt having any chance of success. However, America is very institutionally complex so it would require tens or hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously breaking the law for such a plan to ever succeed.

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Could Trump become an anti-president? [View all] Bluesaph Nov 2020 OP

There's a word of that BGBD Nov 2020 #1

Where would they get their funding or authority? qdouble Nov 2020 #2

Violation of Federal law--impersonating a Federal employee or official and in this case President hlthe2b Nov 2020 #3

All of this assumes a lot Bluesaph Nov 2020 #4