Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Pentagon’s Lack Of Loyalty To President Trump
American Thinker ^ | 4 Oct, 2023 | Al Bienenfeld

Posted on 10/04/2023 5:57:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Whether in overseas matters or domestically, it is very clear that the Pentagon felt no constitutional loyalty to one particular Commander-in-Chief.

During the Trump presidency, Pentagon officials refused to follow orders, substituting their own policies over the constitutionally ordained authority of their Commander in Chief. We know that officials lied about troop strength in Syria, attempted to undermine and kill the peace initiative with the Taliban in Afghanistan, and refused to call out the military to quell civil unrest during the George Floyd riots. This is gross insubordination.

The Syria Insubordination

James Jeffrey, who was a deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush, US ambassador to Iraq and Turkey under President Obama, and US special representative for Syria engagement under Trump, admitted to just some of the games the Pentagon was playing. After the 2020 election, he revealed that the Pentagon routinely misled President Trump into believing that the troop count in Syria was substantially lower than it was:

“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” James Jeffrey, US special representative for Syria engagement, said in an interview with Defense One.

When President Trump ordered the withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria, it was considered controversial among members of Congress, diplomats, and the Pentagon. Ultimately, Pentagon officials convinced the President to leave 200 troops behind. According to Jeffrey, the real number was around 900.

Incidentally, Jeffrey was a signatory to the infamous “Never Trump” letter from 70 GOP security officials opposing the President...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: insubordination; leftism
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-54 next last

1 posted on 10/04/2023 5:57:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Has the Pentagon become a den of leftist wokeism?


2 posted on 10/04/2023 5:58:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” James Jeffrey, US special representative for Syria engagement, said in an interview with Defense One“

When Trump takes office in January one of his first acts has to be firing the entire senior leadership at the Pentagon and the State Department. Then the SES and all their combined staffs.

No mercy.

L


3 posted on 10/04/2023 6:01:00 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

I would suppose so, since our commanding general is fat, woke and possibly perverted.


4 posted on 10/04/2023 6:03:20 AM PDT by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
Don't volunteer, don't re-enlist. Starve the beast.

Everyone do a web search on "Why standing armies are a danger to liberty."

5 posted on 10/04/2023 6:05:33 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
Trump brought a lot of this on himself by displaying this bizarre — borderline homosexual — infatuation with anyone who wore a military uniform.

Just go back and read the adulatory public comments he made as a candidate and as a newly-elected President about military leaders and veterans who later undermined him openly.

6 posted on 10/04/2023 6:06:45 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Milley is an visible example of why Obama accelerated the purge that “cleansed” the military leadership of anyone who would not support the woke agenda.


7 posted on 10/04/2023 6:08:48 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Alberta's Child

Do you all know how I can a job in the new President Trump administration? I want a HR “Bob” job specializing in firing career bureaucrats.


8 posted on 10/04/2023 6:15:08 AM PDT by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Flounder Vindman and Milley Vanilli should both be locked up in Leavenworth for what they’ve done.


9 posted on 10/04/2023 6:20:49 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Prosecutors say Trump may have broken the law admiring gun in South Carolina" ROTFLMAO!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

“The Pentagon’s Lack Of Loyalty To President Trump”

The Deep State’s Lack Of Loyalty To President Trump

There, fixed it


10 posted on 10/04/2023 6:23:34 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
The Pentagon’s Lack Of Loyalty To President Trump the United States of America

There. Fixed it.

11 posted on 10/04/2023 6:31:18 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Just wait...the left will succeed in transforming the military such it will drop from the highest respected government agency right down to the sewer numbers of the congress. A “woke” military will fire on the public.


12 posted on 10/04/2023 6:35:15 AM PDT by Da Coyote
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: armourenthusiast

I think it’s a chick now. Like a real female.


13 posted on 10/04/2023 6:47:32 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: antidemoncrat

It even goes beyond loyalty to Trump, it is lack of loyalty to our Constitution and their oaths.

IMO, anyone who did the things pointed out here is guilty of a capital crime. No statute of limitations and one of two outcomes: regular or extra crispy.


14 posted on 10/04/2023 7:00:21 AM PDT by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Alberta's Child

“Trump brought a lot of this on himself...”

That’s blaming the victim.


15 posted on 10/04/2023 7:02:34 AM PDT by Prolixus (In all seriousness:)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: armourenthusiast
I would suppose so, since our commanding general is fat, woke and possibly perverted.

Gen Milley-Vanilli - COURT MARTIAL and incarcerate his @ss!

16 posted on 10/04/2023 7:10:28 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Biden Crime Family and Dem Party - Two Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of the CCP.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Yep. Cleansing the Pentagon of Neocons and Leftists will be a big part of crushing the Deep State.

Anybody with DIE in their job title needs to be fired immediately.

Anybody chosen by wokesters like Milley and others to succeed them needs to be fired immediately.

The military to no longer allow trannies effective immediately.

The military to no longer have any “pride” anything as of right this second.

Scour their social media and make lists of anyone who pushed Leftist policies in the military. FIRE. THEM. ALL. Immediately. I don’t care if that means you have to fire 20,000 officers. Do it.

Replace the heads of West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy. Fire the leftist profs. Fire any of the board members appointed by Biden.

The military to take back anybody who was separated for refusing the COVID shot at their former pay rate, in their former MOS, they are to be credited with the time away as though they never missed a day, AND they are to be paid all back pay for that period. The President will watch closely and make sure that they are not discriminated against for anything be it promotions, assignments, etc. This is a cram down. You in the Pentagon are going to SHUT UP AND TAKE IT. Anybody who utters a single word of complaint about any of this will be fired immediately.

The current head of the Space Force is fired. The former head who was fired for pointing out there were a lot of hardcore Leftists in the senior ranks of the military is reinstated to his former position. Those who fired him are now themselves fired.

We will have a day of stand down and everybody in the military will get training for how to look out for Hard Leftists like BLM or Klantifa supporters in the military. Those identified will be fired immediately.

The military and the service academies WILL rectify any past discrimination against White Men. We already know there was plenty of it. If that means future classes must be unbalanced for a while admitted WHITE MEN who were unjustly excluded in the past, SO FREAKING BE IT.

Anybody who was insubordinate in the past or who made statements denigrating President Trump has violated the UCMJ and will be fired immediately.

and yes I know Leftists will howl. Yes I know the corporate media will whine like there’s no tomorrow. Both are music to my ears. Ram all of the above through with extreme prejudice.


17 posted on 10/04/2023 7:13:50 AM PDT by FLT-bird
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Prolixus
That's blaming the victim.

No, it's not. I complained about it long before he was a "victim" of those pernicious @ssholes.

His bizarre infatuation with military men was one of the few off-putting things about him back then, from my perspective.

18 posted on 10/04/2023 7:28:37 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

and wasn’t Gen Milley the ring-leader of that insubordination???


19 posted on 10/04/2023 7:41:39 AM PDT by elpadre (rattle snakes)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Americans need to wake up to the fact the death to America crowd figuratively headed by an illegal immigrant by the name of BHO Purposefully embedded his obamanites in every key office in America years ago.

Their agenda was and is to destroy America from within while repurposing its military to render it both useless and defenseless while leaving it available to aid and abet our traditional enemies.

The obamanites are a gang of Marxist Muslims with one goal the death and destruction of America, the hub of western man.


20 posted on 10/04/2023 7:43:35 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-54 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson