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Extraordinary warning to Trump by 10 former Pentagon chiefs
apnews.com ^ | January 4, 2020 | ROBERT BURNS

Posted on 01/05/2021 1:49:36 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

In an extraordinary rebuke of President Donald Trump, all 10 living former secretaries of defense are cautioning against any move to involve the military in pursuing claims of election fraud, arguing that it would take the country into “dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory.”

The 10 men, both Democrats and Republicans, signed on to an opinion article published Sunday in The Washington Post that implicitly questioned Trump’s willingness to follow his Constitutional duty to peacefully relinquish power on Jan. 20. Following the Nov. 3 election and subsequent recounts in some states, as well as unsuccessful court challenges, the outcome is clear, they wrote, while not specifying Trump in the article.

“The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has arrived,” they wrote.

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... signed by Dick Cheney, William Perry, Donald Rumsfeld, William Cohen, Robert Gates, Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel, Ash Carter, James Mattis and Mark Esper. Mattis was Trump’s first defense secretary; he resigned in 2018 and was succeeded by Esper, who was fired just days after the Nov. 3 election.
1 posted on 01/05/2021 1:49:36 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Traitors all. Feckless chicken hawks who got us in countless, worthless wars.


2 posted on 01/05/2021 1:56:34 AM PST by angmo (#joeknew)
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To: angmo

Not one of them ever won a war.


3 posted on 01/05/2021 1:57:17 AM PST by angmo (#joeknew)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Hang every last one of them, every one.

This is war, this is a coup, these imbecilic federal leeches need to be tried for aiding and abetting treason.


4 posted on 01/05/2021 1:57:26 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Mattis was fired just as Barr was fired. But they were allowed to save face by saying they resigned.


5 posted on 01/05/2021 1:58:39 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

KEY WORD: FORMER!

Like a 89 year old FORMER BEAUTY QUEEN!!


6 posted on 01/05/2021 2:00:56 AM PST by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty and Let the the Stupid AmericanTaxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The treason trap draws in 10 more.


7 posted on 01/05/2021 2:02:04 AM PST by SanchoP ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." )
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To: Berlin_Freeper
I have little respect for any of them except maybe Rumsfield....

funny and ironic that they are all concerned now about the constitution and the rule of law....

where the hell have they been when our votes were being changed in Italy?

8 posted on 01/05/2021 2:02:18 AM PST by cherry (TRUMP WON!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Trump’s not going to use the military to overturn the electoral counting on Jan 6th.

But if Congress does the right thing, Trump may need to use the military to put down antifa.

Congress should acknowledge the widespread evidence of coordinated fraud and delay the vote until it can be further examined or give the vote to Trump.

With possibly 140 congressment and at least 12 senators objecting to the electoral submissions, I don’t see how they can count without getting into it.

And Pense has promised to hear the objections and to have our day before Congress on Jan 6th.


9 posted on 01/05/2021 2:04:24 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They don’t even realize how they prove the deep state by doing this.


10 posted on 01/05/2021 2:08:30 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: cherry
Same here. Very sad to see Rumsfield in this group and to a lesser extent Cheney. Rumsfield has always been a person held in high esteem. He is 88 years old and he is loyal to his friends.
11 posted on 01/05/2021 2:10:07 AM PST by rdcbn1
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“Chuck Hegel”. LOL


12 posted on 01/05/2021 2:24:45 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Berlin_Freeper

ALL WICKED SCUMBAGS, and not your usual garden variety scumbags but HALL OF FAMERS.


13 posted on 01/05/2021 2:30:51 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Deep state operative pos list


14 posted on 01/05/2021 2:35:36 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How many legions do these traitors have ?


15 posted on 01/05/2021 2:47:12 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The military-industrial compkex Ike warned us about has spoken.

No new wars in 4 years. When is the last time that happened?


16 posted on 01/05/2021 2:59:46 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

War mongers, every damn one of them.


17 posted on 01/05/2021 3:07:55 AM PST by Trump_Triumphant ( Trump will always be my President, and Jesus Christ will always be my Lord)
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........ all 10 living former Secretaries of D efense rebuked Trump......cautioning against involving the military
in pursuing claims of election fraud, as "it would take the country into dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory”........

That's a laugh.......these jokers are worried about endangering the military?

Some of them prostrated themselves.....kneeling in obeisance to the agenda-driven SOB neocons.

They took the US military (and taxpayers) into useless, trillion dollar wars....... for little or no reason...
except that the war profiteering was so huge, n/c godfather Richard Pele started his own billion dollar oil company.

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This always rankled me......the (cough) "military training" of the Middle East doofuses lasted five years ...or more.

In the US, we take them off the farm, put 'em in boot camp, and in a couple months they're ready to fight.

The (gag) Secrtaries of Defense never figured out the endless Mideast training was a ruse to bilk the US taxpayer.

Secretaries of Defense my Aunt Tilly.......a bunch of useless jerks.

18 posted on 01/05/2021 3:14:44 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Trump_Triumphant

and written by a true AP swamp creature, Robert Burns:

LinkedIn: Robert Burns
National Security Writer
The Associated Press
Dec 1977 - Present·43 years 2 months
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-burns-5154798

how do Berniebros & so-called antiwar left - who presumably must have voted for the warmongers - rationalise their choice, when they see this type of unhinged behaviour from these DeepStaters?


19 posted on 01/05/2021 3:14:45 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: Berlin_Freeper

any move to involve the military in pursuing claims of election fraud, arguing that it would take the country into “dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory.


Which is totally different from a Democrat stolen federal election because that will take the country into “dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory.


20 posted on 01/05/2021 3:16:40 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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