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Generals WIN battle with Donald Trump as 82nd Airborne soldiers are REMOVED from D.C.
UK Daily Mail ^ | June 4, 2020 | Katelyn Carrlaye

Posted on 06/04/2020 2:16:03 PM PDT by livius

Generals WIN battle with Donald Trump as 82nd Airborne soldiers are REMOVED from D.C. after chairman of joint chiefs publicly slammed president telling troops to 'uphold the Constitution'

Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne division of the Army were ordered out of Washington, D.C. and back to Fort Bragg, North Carolina on Thursday night

The about 200 active duty troops were kept on standby at bases near the nation's capital and were never called into the city in the midst of riots

The move is a clear reversal after Donald Trump faced backlash for calling in the military to serve as backup should the National Guard need assistance

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, former Army General John Allen and former Defense Secretary James Mattis all pushed back against Trump

Milley told troops in a Thursday memo to 'uphold the Constitution' 'We all committed our lives to the idea that is America' after he defended protesters' right to assemble,' he added in pen at at the bottom of the letter

Mattis and retired four-star General Allen both bashedTrump in separate op-eds

They specifically called out police clearing Lafayette Park with tear gas and rubber bullets so Trump could visit a church across the street for a photo-op.

'It may well signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment,' Allen said of the church visit where Trump held up his bible for photos .

'Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people - does not even pretend to try,' Mattis wrote

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: artofthedeal; braking; dailyfail; dailywail; dc; fakenews; military; patriotsincontrol; tds; trump; trusttheplan; watchandlearn
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To: livius
who is CIC here? Trump or

rabid dog mattis or current lowlife esper?

161 posted on 06/04/2020 4:22:13 PM PDT by va22030
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To: livius
Smell their breath.

They are the last in the line of the Kenyan Klown Human Centipede. Anything the Klown excretes ends up as ambrosia for these two boys.

162 posted on 06/04/2020 4:22:57 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: John S Mosby
said, "They have NOT returned to Ft. Bragg... In preparation for the declaration of Antifa as a domestic terrorist"

That is going to be hard to do with Wray claiming there is no evidence Antifa has anything to do with the riots

Thank you for the update

163 posted on 06/04/2020 4:23:54 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: John S Mosby

Right on Daily Mail and LSM are dopes telling big windy stories.


164 posted on 06/04/2020 4:25:05 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: livius

As he has disgraced himself, the uniform and the Corps, Mattis is better considered to be a punk, rather than a general. A loud-mouthed punk.


165 posted on 06/04/2020 4:26:22 PM PDT by glennaro (Prager: "Until it's safe" means "Never"!)
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To: glennaro

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268675068814659584/photo/1

Need to read. Just posted by Pres Trump


166 posted on 06/04/2020 4:27:11 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: livius

Can’t believe how many Freepers, who should know better, are once again getting their panties in a twist over an MSM article!


167 posted on 06/04/2020 4:29:16 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Sources are telling Dan #Bongino that they are genuinely concerned that some upper level people in our military are openly talking about defying the President of the United States. “That’s got a name. That’s called a mutiny.”

https://twitter.com/Calloutfortruth/status/1268642419635114000


168 posted on 06/04/2020 4:30:37 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: glennaro
What did you do during the War, Daddy? 🇺🇸🇺🇸
169 posted on 06/04/2020 4:32:35 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: conservativepoet

Wow! Hadn’t seen this. JM Dowd is indeed a Marine of high honor.


170 posted on 06/04/2020 4:33:01 PM PDT by glennaro (Prager: "Until it's safe" means "Never"!)
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To: va22030

Wait—— “It’s..... JOHN BOLTON!!!” the moron who ordered troop movements in Turkey without Pres. Trump being consulted as he was communicating with Erdogan. Anyone forget that? Bolton still not allowed to release his “book”. The machinery of DC is a wide and deep swamp.

Mattis is yet another perfumed prince (and all that this means)-— like the perpetual Army colonels who are all democrat lefties, who would have loved to be around escalating Vietnam under that scum pervo LBJ (who micromanaged failure rather well as he watched 5 TV sets). LBJ colonels— who get paid kick back from the Military Industrial Complex a REAL General... Eisenhower, warned the country about. This is how they roll, when they can’t get another Steele fake dossier and when you have Piers (fagboy) Morgan editing UK Daily Mail. Not true, and he took the bait.


171 posted on 06/04/2020 4:35:11 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: myerson
It’s my understanding that then troops were on standby and were never deployed. They were sent back when the threat was considered to be over. Of course, the haters will create a narrative around this to attack Trump.

A conveniently overlooked fact that was in mainstream press this week. Give ‘em credit for the rate of spin.

172 posted on 06/04/2020 4:36:12 PM PDT by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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To: Laslo Fripp

Thank you for your response. Full disclosure: I didn’t serve (just missed out on West Point), but I spent much of my 50-year career as an engineer on DOD programs for military vehicles and weaponry support with GM, FMC Defense Systems and Hughes Electronics/Raytheon. Cheers!


173 posted on 06/04/2020 4:36:42 PM PDT by glennaro (Prager: "Until it's safe" means "Never"!)
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To: livius

This is a fake news article. I know a lot of you constantly say something is fake when you don’t like, but I don’t. This really fake.


174 posted on 06/04/2020 4:40:03 PM PDT by mlo
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To: mlo

See 167


175 posted on 06/04/2020 4:41:39 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: GraceG

DC is not a state. Why is their use in the District violation of the Constitution.?


176 posted on 06/04/2020 4:47:09 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: veracious

I would go so far as to say it’s irresponsible for commander, such as POTUS to not have at least a regiment of soldiers in DC, per my previous. To protect We-The-Peoples interests in DC.


177 posted on 06/04/2020 4:50:51 PM PDT by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam; USgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
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To: mosaicwolf; bitt; tgusa; Lumper20; ZULU; sheik yerbouty; Tilted Irish Kilt; DarthVader; ...

I’m sorry but I think the show of force was awesome. We use our troops to defend the world & why not protect & defend this nation from domestic terrorists on our own soil? The CIC should have the say in where our military is needed and to deploy them accordingly. I think DJT did the right thing sending the 82 Airborne to DC to defend the nation here on our own soil.

General Milley states in his letter that the National Guard has been deployed by the Governors. My response to that is that the Marxist RAT governors/dictators don’t give a damn about protecting the citizens of their states as they’ve proven for the past 3-4 months to the detriment of their states. I wouldn’t trust a single one of these human waste governors to use the National Guard in force protection of the citizens. I prefer the US military be directed by the CIC who truly wants to defend this nation from enemies foreign and domestic. God knows we as many domestic enemies as we have foreign enemies.

Domestic enemies, IMO, include the likes of Newsom, Pritzker, Northam, Whitmer, Kent, and the rest of the RAT human waste governors, mayors, and city councils.

My father was a veteran of WWII and the Korean War. I know he’s rolling in his grave at the total BS we’re living through now. The bastards out in our streets including the MSM, Liberal politicians, Deep State dishonor every American veteran going back to 1776 who fought for this nation to keep us free.


178 posted on 06/04/2020 4:54:07 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Grampa Dave

The Capitol police can guard Federal buildings tho. The Mayor only deals with Metro police.


179 posted on 06/04/2020 4:55:06 PM PDT by HollyB (Cv timeline)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I reading history, didn’t Truman nationalize the national guard and sent them to Korea while the regular army starting drafting and training?


180 posted on 06/04/2020 4:55:36 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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