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
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Fake News over Marxist Zero’s retired ass-kissing generals.
Far more going on than the Fake News has a clue about!
Garrett Haake@GarrettHaake
Back outside the White House. Today the perimeter has been pushed back another half block. Federal law enforcement of some kind, but they wont identify themselves, and all insignias and name plates have been removed.
Trump is showing the governors how many armed federal law-enforcement units and military he can mobilize and how quickly.
Nobody is able to track them, and the press is oblivious to who they are.
This shows the difference between REAL leaders and poseurs.
Democrats elect fellow perma-children who don’t bother how to learn their jobs.
Trump is shuffling his deck of many thousands of trigger pullers.
Democratic governors, mayors, sheriffs, and police chiefs are used to giving speeches.
Its called an attempted coup. Ongoing. They will not stop until they force Trump to martial law. We are dancing around it right now.
The Babylon Bee is the only news source I believe in anymore; perhaps maybe The Onion for satire.
It’s called cherry picking.
Never thought I would say how little respect I have for fellow Marines.
How they got sucked into politics so deeply and wrongly does not bode well for the Corps.
They operate under a whole new set of RoE. all biased and of no use in a real face-to-face skirmish.
They didn’t win and this story is a load of crock
They went home after standing down because they were no longer needed.
So, if the military leaves DC, and a million of Maxine’s people emerge/come into DC to “protest”, what happens if they want to burn down the White House, Smithsonian or the Capitol? Too few people to stop a full insurrection.
It has happened before. The Brits burned a lot of things on August 24, 1914, including the White House and Capitol.
Do we have an internal 9-11 on our hands?
Does Trump declare Martial Law?
Is the election cancelled?
After watching the stock market rise on the employment data today, I decided to sell everything in my self-directed IRA and sit out the weekend in cash. Cost nothing to do, no taxes, no wash sale rules and I can buy it back Monday morning if the protests are peaceful.
Not giving advice, just sharing my actions.
Jeez, yes, isn’t the military suppose to have the back of POTUS? Is this the beginning of a coup?
I think someone else posted the memo in response to you.
I immediately knew the claim that the chairman “publicly slammed” the President had to be false. To do so would have been Contempt Toward and Official, an offense under Article 88 of UCMJ. He could have been court martialed and punished by forfeiture of pay, up to 1 year confinement, and dismissal from the service.
F these ahole generals. Tear gas not used, get your information from someplace other than CNN.......Communist News Network
If they were on standby, then the Army approved it, and would have acted if ordered. So this story is fake spin on a real story.
Speeches doesn’t quell the peace!
Esper is as good as gone.
Watch him either resign or get handed his walking papers.
I would not believe everything you read.
I am beginning to think that most of the stories about Esper are a big headfake.
I think there is a lot of disinformation being put out right now, and some of it is coming from the Trump Administration. They are trying to get the other side to make miscalculations.
"This is not good. Why do two former military heads have any say in this at all? What is going on here?"
Hmmmm
Looks like the left has found their "Lee"... One step closer..
[mosaicwolf] How about Eisenhower sending the troops to Little Rock to enforce school desecration. Am I wrong here?[the_Watchman] Yes, you are wrong!! :) The troops in Little Rock were to support school DESEGREGATION; certainly not desecration.
Eisenhower handwritten note from September 1957:
"Not to enforce integration but to prevent opposition by violence to orders of a court."
Emphasis in original. The court in question was the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
U.S. Constitution, Art. 4, Sec. 4:
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
U.S. Constitution, Art. 1, Sec. 8., Cl. 15.
[Congress shall have the Power:] To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, supress Insurrections and repel Invasions.
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insurrection. (15c) A violent revolt against an oppressive authority, usu. a government. ...Insurrection is distinguished from rout, riot, and offense connected with mob violence by the fact that in insurrection there is an organized and armed uprising against authority or operations of government, while crimes growing out of mob violence, however serious they may be and however numerous the participants, are simply unlawful acts in disturbance of the peace which do not threaten the stability of the government or the existence of political society. 77 C.J.S. Riot; Insurrection § 29, at 579 (1994).
Black's Law Dictionary, 11th Ed., 2019. CJS stands for Corpus Juris Secundum, a legal encyclopedia.
Thanks.
I have been out of town since the weekend with only short opportunities to use WiFi. So what did our President finally do to recognize 6/6?
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