If the chain of command gets their authority from somebody who may not even be a US citizen and is CERTAINLY ineligible to be the CIC, then I have just as much authority as they do. If any orders I gave would be unlawful because I’m not properly within the chain of command, then the same would hold true of anybody who hangs their authority on the Kenyan-born, criminal, current “de facto” commander in chief.
His bona fides are even less than mine. If it is laughable to think of me giving lawful orders, then it’s even MORE laughable for HIM to be able to initiate a directive that funnels down to the troops.
Officers don't receive their authority from the President, they receive their authority from the Constitution and statutory law, to include DOD directives and the UCMJ.
So long as Obama is in that office, irrespective if he was installed in the office under fraudulent means, he still wields the authority of the office, to include the authority vest him by the USC as Commander-in-Chief. It is that simple. I can't make it any simpler.
Goodnight, butterdezillion! You sound like a complete idiot. Do you realize that?
The Congress of the U.S. didn’t certify your election as POTUS and you weren’t sworn into the office of POTUS by the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS, but guess who was? That’s why his orders are presumed lawful down the chain of command. He’s the sitting President of the U.S. until and unless he is impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate.
It’s really not that complicated.