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President Trump Quietly Issued Another Executive Order – This One Concerning the Military
GP ^ | December 13 2020 | Joe Hoft

Posted on 12/13/2020 5:03:02 PM PST by White Lives Matter

We heard last week that the President issued an Executive Order concerning Christmas Eve but there was another Executive Order concerning the Military that he also sneaked through.

President Trump’s Executive Orders (EO’s) have been in the news lately. One EO relates to foreign interference in the elections which was renewed in September after being first issued in September 2018. This EO mandates that the DNI – currently John Ratcliffe – produce a report on foreign intervention in the 2020 election within 45 days of the election. This equates to December 18.

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Another EO that was signed a couple of days ago on the 13th related to succession of the military. This EO lists the order of succession of the military should the Secretary of Defense die, resign or be unable to perform his duties. The one notable in this EO is that the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs, General Mark Milley, is not on the list.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: executiveorder; joebiden; militarysuccession; nationalsecurity; trump; usconstitution
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To: White Lives Matter

Gateway Pundit is circling the toilet bowl of whatever credibility it may have had before. They make money on clicks.


21 posted on 12/13/2020 6:19:03 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: lee martell

Gets. Get’s would be a contraction for “get is” or a possessive and thus would have to be a noun.


22 posted on 12/13/2020 7:08:21 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe /-/)
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To: little jeremiah

In light of all this, I think this statement by the president was very prescient:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!
7:16 AM · Jun 22, 2020


23 posted on 12/13/2020 7:11:54 PM PST by LilFarmer ( )
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Well, the Executive Order is real.


24 posted on 12/13/2020 7:22:11 PM PST by little jeremiah (Thirst for truth is the most valuable possession and no one can take it away from you.)
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To: White Lives Matter

Christmas Eve would be a great day to round up conspirators. Christmas Day would be perfect for swift military tribunals at GITMO.


25 posted on 12/13/2020 7:25:51 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (I'd rather have a rude President than a polite tyrant.)
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To: Empireoftheatom48

>>>That says it all. We have been promised so much for so long. I guess we will still believe its just around the corner as we are being loaded into cattle cars on the way to our new homes in Northern Alaska.<<<

I live in northern Alaska, and it should go without saying that I don’t want more neighbors. </lame humor>

But seriously, if it get to that point, they’ll have to deal with us. Every home is heavily armed. Kids routinely shoot their first moose when they’re in the fifth grade, and one of the reasons the military likes working with our young men and women is that they’re almost always crack shots and don’t mind a little work in hard conditions. And we’re already wary of governmental decrees from our Lower 48 elites.

Somewhere in the Great Basin sounds scarier.


26 posted on 12/13/2020 8:33:33 PM PST by redpoll
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To: rfp1234
"Joint Chiefs are an advisory body, and not in the Pentagon’s chain of command."

Huh? Since when are the uniformed Secretaries of the Air Force, Army, Marines, and Navy not in the chain of command? Always thought they were the top of the chain, just under the Chairman, Secretary of Defense, then the President. How could I have been so wrong for so long?

27 posted on 12/13/2020 10:12:47 PM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated )
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To: A Navy Vet
From Wikipedia, for what it's worth.

Following the Goldwater–Nichols Act in 1986, the Joint Chiefs of Staff do not have operational command authority, either individually or collectively, as the chain of command goes from the president to the secretary of defense, and from the secretary to the regional combatant commanders.[7]

Goldwater–Nichols also created the office of vice chairman, and the chairman is now designated as the principal military adviser to the Secretary of Defense, the Homeland Security Council, the National Security Council and the president.[8]

28 posted on 12/13/2020 10:47:33 PM PST by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor: Dominion delenda est.)
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To: A Navy Vet

I think you meant “uniformed service chiefs” not “uniformed service secretaries”. Anyway, the chiefs of staff of the Army, Air Force, Chief of Naval Operations, Chief of Space Operations and Commandant of the Marine Corps are responsible for training and maintaining the forces that get allocated to the combatant commands. Their basic role is administration and fighting for budget dollars. The article is to make us believe something happened with the CJCS that didn’t. More gaslighting.


29 posted on 12/14/2020 7:16:24 AM PST by damper99
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