Military Urged to Prevent Trump's Election [semi-satire]

This week, MSNBC's Donny Deutsch called for the US military "to intervene to prevent Trump's election this November. With polls showing that voters are becoming even more favorable toward Trump after his historic, first ever, felony conviction of a former president the situation couldn't be more dire. We need the brave leaders of our nation's elite armed forces to publicly urge voters to opt for reelecting President Biden."

Deutsch contrasted "the noble service rendered by Biden heroically driving a tank in the Vietnam War to Donald Trump's 'medical exemption' from active duty. On the one hand, we have a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals after his plane was shot down over New Guinea in WW II. On the other, is Trump who has lived a life of wealth and privilege never having to scrounge for money from foreign benefactors like the working class Bidens have had to do."

"Let me be clear," Deutsch said, "I'm not calling for a coup d'état as such. I'm calling for the kind of campaign statement that the intelligence agencies made to discredit Hunter Biden's laptop prior to the 2020 election. If guys like Gen. John Kelly, Gen. James Mattis, Gen. H.R. McMaster and Gen. Mark Milley would tell voters that it is their patriotic duty to reelect Biden I think it could tip the scales in his favor and save democracy."

In related news, retired Admiral William McRaven contends that "those who criticize the government are undermining America. The so-called 'swamp' and 'deep state' that Trump regularly attacks are the institutions that have protected this nation from disruptive outsiders for the last 80 years. I'm not saying we can't have political disagreements, but there have to be some boundaries that cannot be breached--kind of like those bumpers they put on bowling lanes so kids' balls don't veer into the gutter. Responsible politicians like Sen. Charles Schumer and Sen. Mitch McConnell respect these boundaries. Trump does not. He must not be allowed to takeover the presidency."

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The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes which limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. Congress passed the Act as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction and updated it in 1956, 1981 and 2021.

The Act originally applied only to the United States Army, but a subsequent amendment in 1956 expanded its scope to the United States Air Force. In 2021, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 further expanded the scope of the Act to cover the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Space Force. The Act does not prevent the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state’s governor. The United States Coast Guard (under the Department of Homeland Security) is not covered by the Act either, primarily because although it is an armed service, it also has a maritime law enforcement mission.

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