Posted on 02/04/2017 10:01:37 PM PST by Steelfish
Obama Pentagon Official Says Anti-Trump Military Coup Now Possible Says Trump ‘as crazy as everyone feared’; claims military overthrow and ‘an insane order’ both ‘frightening’
By Carlo Muñoz - February 2, 2017.
A former Defense Department official under the Obama administration has raised the specter of a military coup to remove President Donald Trump from power.
In an editorial penned for Foreign Policy, senior Pentagon policy official Rosa Brooks publicly suggested a military insurrection against the Trump administration may be the only option to oust one of the most divisive presidents in American history.
“Donald Trump’s first week as president has made it all too clear: Yes, he is as crazy as everyone feared,” Ms. Brooks wrote. “[One] possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders.”
For the first time in her career in public service, including three years as senior counselor to the Pentagon’s policy chief from 2009 to 2011, “I can imagine plausible scenarios in which senior military officials might simply tell the president: ‘No, sir. We’re not doing that.’”
Ms. Brooks‘ editorial comes as a recent poll by Public Policy Polling group found that 40 percent of registered voters support Mr. Trump’s impeachment. In addition, 52 percent of voters polled said they would rather have President Obama in the Oval Office, opposed to the 43 percent who support the Trump presidency.
In the editorial, Ms. Brooks noted that Mr. Trump’s “thin-skinned, erratic, and unconstrained” approach to defense matters of defense could put top U.S. military leaders in a position where they would be forced to execute orders that may be “dangerously unhinged” from a basic understanding of national security.
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Really?! Why am I still seeing this crap?
Because NOBODY would have posted this crap before on FR ever right?
Air bubble. Injection.
The military voted for Trump in overwhelming numbers and has even been “caught” flying Trump flags.
I am not going to say this guys name. But, when I lived in China I knew a man that “worked” for an import/export company that supposedly imported marble and granite and other high end building stones into China for fancy buildings from the US, Italy and who knows where.
Honestly, the guy never did anything that looked like he worked. He had a small office in his flat but no secretary or staff. There was no company warehouse or stock kept in Wuhan. He almost never traveled beyond Wuhan for business.He was almost always available for a bike ride or BBQ. He did spend a LOT of time wining and dining CCP cadres and officials as well as local businessmen (The same thing often as the other two) and developing contacts for “Business” purposes. I have wondered for years if his company might have been a front like “Universal Exports” in the James Bond movies. Really I’ve never met another Ex-pat in China who seemed to have more money but worked less.
One night after an evening get together he and I were conversing on the balcony when after three or four beers I made derogatory crack about US politics and specifically Bill Clinton. He mentioned that he knew that there were several high level military officers that had considered a coup against Bill Clinton but decided against it but that a large percentage of the military brass and intelligence community detested Clinton. He said his colleague had sold some rock to a government contract in Washington and that was the scuttlebutt at the time. Possibly realizing he’d said too much he asked me to keep that under my hat.
I make no claim as to the veracity or accuracy of what the guy told me.
I can see such a plot against Clinton more than Obama but I can’t see it against Trump.
“Mr. Trump’s”
That’s “President Trump”
This Pentagon official is one more Liberal who snapped on Election Night. They have dropped any pretext of caring about the Constitution. They openly speak of secession, coup, assassination, revolution, etc. The Jihadists are the exterior enemies. Those that make up the Left (Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, Communists, Anarchists) are the interior enemies.
LOL... do it!!!
That’s great. That’s what I found looking online. It’s somewhere between 2 to 1 and 3 to 1 they chose Trump. I get great numbers for the vets but I was looking for a separate number on Active military and couldn’t find it.
Libs dont realize we’d be at war with Russia immediately upon setting up the no fly zone.
President Trump IS crazy....like a fox.
I believe he will be one of the best presidents in American history.
I’m very happy with him so far.
This Rosa Brooks broad is a nut job who belongs in a mental institution. She is bat $hit crazy, like most liberals.
This would mean civil war. And this liberal and her liberal friends
would be the first to go. The very first to go.
These people have been so unhinged that the are no longer trying to hide thier fascism and hatred. I am more convinced then ever if Hillary had one she would let them kill us all.
CaveAt they would have tried to kill us.
Well looky here, guess who this Obama-bot who is now calling for a military coup was working for all along!!
Scroll down and read CAREFULLY the part under “Legal Career.” Important!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Brooks
Just you and yours give it a try Mr Muñoz and see what will happen......
LOL libs don’t realize a lot of things...namely who has more guns and trains to exhaustion with them.
And as to your second point, I’m no Putin fan but war with Russia would be counterproductive.
Nope. Not over-reacting at all. So-called official is guilty of sedition, except for the part of being "former" official. Good thing is that person is "former" not a current official.
"Brooks' work history has included previous government service as a senior adviser to Assistant Secretary Harold Hongju Koh at the U.S. Department of State, five years as an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and a year as Special Counsel to the President at the Open Society Institute, George Soros' philanthropic foundation."
I am more convinced then ever if Hillary had won, she would have let them kill us all.
Yes
Yep...untrained+unhinged=dead.
not a fake news. it’s left wing terrorists’ wishful thinking. And they have taken action to instil their ideology in military.
That’s the most overtly seditious thing I have heard in my entire life.
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