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Sorry, We Can Only View This Secret Pentagon Meeting as a Plot to Foment an Insurrection
Townhall ^ | 9 Nov, 2024 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 11/10/2024 9:17:10 AM PST by MtnClimber

John Frankenheimer directed a movie called Seven Days in May in the 1960s, starring Kirk Douglas as a military officer who uncovers a coup against the president of the United States by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who signed a deeply unpopular nuclear disarmament treaty. That’s a movie. In 2024, the Pentagon brass plotted to countermand President-elect Donald J. Trump’s orders. If we’re going by the Left’s rules here, this is an insurrection. It’s a military coup. What’s worse is that these anti-Trump meetings were held in secret and then got leaked to the media (via CNN):

Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers, defense officials told CNN.

Trump has suggested he would be open to using active-duty forces for domestic law enforcement and mass deportations and has indicated he wants to stack the federal government with loyalists and “clean out corrupt actors” in the US national security establishment.

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“We are all preparing and planning for the worst-case scenario, but the reality is that we don’t know how this is going to play out yet,” one defense official said.

Trump’s election has also raised questions inside the Pentagon about what would happen if the president issued an unlawful order, particularly if his political appointees inside the department don’t push back.

“Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders,” said another defense official. “But the question is what happens then – do we see resignations from senior military leaders? Or would they view that as abandoning their people?”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 202411; cnn; coupplot; coupplots; dod; insurrection; leftwingnuts; military; sedition
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To: Salvavida

Don’t forget to go through the military academies in a similar fashion. Clean out the commies.


41 posted on 11/10/2024 11:30:41 AM PST by curious7
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To: MtnClimber

They’re all focused on keeping their jobs...by any means necessary, as good democrats are wont to do. Even the SecDef has said he’d be happy to follow orders going forward, choosing to go his own bootlicking way.


42 posted on 11/10/2024 11:33:46 AM PST by DPMD
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To: SuperLuminal

He was also effective in exposing, if unwittingly so, the rampant antisemitism in the upper chambers of the military. The current mob, as good democrats, should be seen in the same light and dealt with accordingly.


43 posted on 11/10/2024 11:35:58 AM PST by DPMD
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To: DPMD

Yes indeed!


44 posted on 11/10/2024 11:49:18 AM PST by SuperLuminal
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To: MtnClimber

Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders.

Wonder if those who own the night agree with actions?.


45 posted on 11/10/2024 12:07:25 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: MtnClimber

Obama sycophants Brennan, Clapper, Rice, Comey and that dementia addled FBI guy that later run the fake investigation all schemed to entrap President Trump while they plotted to remove anyone that could actually help him. He had only traitorous Milly types to turn too for advice.

They will do the same again and likely worse. He must fire them all and do not tell them in advance about any of his plans until hes in place sitting in the Oval Office and ready to drop the hammer on their heads.


46 posted on 11/10/2024 12:11:00 PM PST by captmar-vell
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To: captmar-vell

Dementia addled FBI guy was not an FBI guy he was a dementia addled independent counsel.


47 posted on 11/10/2024 12:13:21 PM PST by Reily ( disorder )
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To: jagusafr

That’s the beauty of demotions. You can take those generals down a peg. Every month. And disallow resignation or retirement due to force retention needs. Once they spend a couple of years peeling potatoes allow retirement at that rank with a less than honorable discharge.

Look out below!


48 posted on 11/10/2024 12:22:26 PM PST by Go_Raiders (An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? - Axel Oxenstierna)
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To: Kudsman

Who knows? If you fire all who attended the meeting you will send a clear message...


49 posted on 11/10/2024 12:33:16 PM PST by Eli Kopter
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To: MNnice
I never served in the US military. When I was working with a labor union in the late 70’s I was working on construction of a VA hospital in The Bronx.

It was there among other things that I learned that not only is the VA the biggest bureaucracy in the US government but there seems to be a culture of “I served my time, now I get mine’’.

50 posted on 11/10/2024 12:45:25 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: MtnClimber

““Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders,” said another defense official.”

That’s what I always thought, then I saw the NG in New Orleans taking some old lady’s gun. And I watched border patrol lift up the fence so bad guys could get in easier.


51 posted on 11/10/2024 1:15:37 PM PST by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: SuperLuminal

How bout just fire them, fire them?

Unemployment line.


52 posted on 11/10/2024 1:18:29 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (What does the Deep State have on Dims and RINOs? Demand release of all tax returns)
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To: Reily

Thanks, I stand corrected. I still don’t recall his name though.

I believe he had earlier wanted President Trump to make him head of the FBI though. Also foul corrupt Merrick Garland was another loser feeling stood up and forever scorned on their first date.


53 posted on 11/10/2024 2:16:19 PM PST by captmar-vell
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To: Ann Archy

Yes


54 posted on 11/10/2024 2:45:46 PM PST by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
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To: Harpotoo

National guard can if there is a procedure invoked


55 posted on 11/10/2024 2:46:43 PM PST by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
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To: Albion Wilde

I meant took=interpreted. Not knowing any more than I do, that’s about as far as I can go. :-)


56 posted on 11/10/2024 3:36:12 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Thanks! Just checkin’!


57 posted on 11/10/2024 3:51:53 PM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: jagusafr; Red Badger; SJackson; SunkenCiv

Can we assign any identified General, Admiral, or senior enlisted who “attended” (or who do not report) any such discussions and meetings to a bare 8x8 cubicle in Fort Bliss, El Paso?


58 posted on 11/10/2024 4:25:32 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: KC_Conspirator
Entrenched bureaucrats will do this; they are already making up stories about how when he gets in office they will be asked to do things that are “illegal”.

The left's tactic now seems to be fomenting hysterical fear mongering based on hypotheticals and speculations.

They've been doing it all along. *If Trump wins (fill in the blank with some fearmongering end of the world scenario)*.

So here they are all plotting, scheming, and hyperventilating about what they're going to do when he asks them to do something illegal, instead of deciding what to do when/IF it ever even happens.

59 posted on 11/10/2024 8:00:25 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: Harpotoo

Just recently (like a week ago) I read articles about how the military was locked and loaded in case Trump lost so they could crush us.


60 posted on 11/10/2024 8:24:01 PM PST by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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