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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no ,longer needed...very small crowd there today....
Fantastic movie.
There was a vote on the Homeland and Security committee today (Senate) and they passed subpoenas for a variety of Obama’s people.
IMHO the greatest movie ever made.
And why are they allowed to spout off in disagreement with their commander in chief?
Correct, but the fake news in this moronic article is simply meant to attempt to sow discord in the Administration and further the lefts narrative.
In other words, a lot of nonsensical opinions masquerading as news.
No need to sunshine pump here.
Esper and Milley both publicly undermined the CIC. This is miliary making policy banana republic stuff.
Daily Mail has been anti-Trump for a while, I wouldn’t take their spin on this story without more information than the article provides.
Win? They are on equal level with the POTUS? Or did he decide?
President Trump wimps out. He needs to stop doing this.
None of this is true. NONE. He had them on standby. He did not order the military into our streets. He warned that it the governors and mayors didn’t restore order, he would be forced to.
This plus the TWO scoops of ice cream while everyone else only got one.
Good. I was a little concerned it would give some of the “crazies” a green-light to act.
Exactly! I think trump’s problem is he should have addressed the nation immediately after the third night of the riots..A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO THE NATION...all eyes on him ..people are frustrated and nervous they want reassurance from their president not twits!
More propaganda.
President Trump is firmly in charde.
If they were removed from Washington, its simply because they were not needed.
if the rioting had gotten worse, there would have been a battle for the streets with the regular troops.And it would have been bloody.
But no need now.
And if they are needed, they will be right back.
I doubt you are alone in that thought.
Nothing wrong with Trump listening to his generals, if true. Imo they saved him from a real big mistake in deploying troops. The Dems cried “foul” prematurely and saved him.
I posted last night on one of the related threads that I was concerned that the military was going its own way and maybe Trump didn’t have full control over them. Nobody responded, but it’s been a concern of mine for awhile now.
The truth is often ugly in the Age of Trump. A lot of good folks don’t want to face it. Here we have the military undermining the CIC during a National Emergency. After, of course, having aided and abetted an IC seditious assault against him. Our institutions like the military are failing us. It’s that simple.
The Deep State thought they would drive Trump out of DC even before his inauguration. In three plus years they’ve done everything to get rid of him, but nothing has worked. In the process their veil of secrecy is being peeled back. More Americans are becoming aware of their existence and they’re no longer imaginary boogeymen conjured up by conspiracy theorists. The Deep State is real!
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