[livius]

This is not good. Why do two former military heads have any say in this at all? What is going on here?

[Calif Conservative]

The OP on this is really helping to fan the anti-Trump flames

here is my deconstruction, and compare it to how the article is made to sound

1. read this: This is the actual tweet — of a letter issued June 2 — to troops generically. And not to the 82nd Airborne company specifically

https://twitter.com/thejointstaff/status/1268239884013142017/photo/1

and then they’re going to leave
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/06/03/active-duty-troops-deployed-dc-region-start-leave.html

then they’re going to stay, based on concerns of possible further unrest
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/06/03/army-esper-reverses-plan-send-active-duty-troops-home.html

and finally, they actually start to leave
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/06/04/82nd-airborne-soldiers-deployed-dc-region-start-leave.html

See? those are the facts. But the original poster — and far too many freepers — FEAR Bros — are only too willing to believe — and spout — the worst possible interpretation and one that is designed to hurt the President.

And this is the correct deconstruction of the Daily Mail fake news

SMDH

[Calif Conservative]

And most pathetic of all, I bet the increasing Band of Bozos on Free Republic forgot about the amazing events northwest of Hawaii 78 years ago, near the tiny Midway Atoll on this very day.

as of 11 pm Eastern Time, President Trump forgot as well. Not a word. not a tweet. Not a single word from our President to commemorate this great battle, one of the greatest military victories in world history. Too busy fighting with pathetic Sen. Murkowski and Gen. Mattis and too busy digging up letters from some attorney.

Midway Battle. Nah. Free Republic. hardly a peep. Forgotten by nearly everyone.

6-4-1942. A day when our men, our American men, irrevocably turned the tide against Japan’s totalitarian dictators and sent 4 Japanese aircraft carriers to the bottom of the Pacific.

RIP our wonderful sailors.

RIP brave, gallant Yorktown, you great lady and your men.

Thank you Chester Nimitz, Jack Fletcher, Ray Spruance, Wade McClusky, Richard Best, Dusty Kleiss. So many of you to thank. You were real men. Men’s men.

Thank you for helping to save us all.

[ScottinVA]

Sounds to me like insubordination. Trump has the Insurrection Act of 1807 as backing. Those generals opposing him need to STFU and resign.

[angcat]

Is there proof the 82nd was actually there? I was told they were waiting for instructions and still at their base?

[MGunny]

The troops were deployed to prevent further damage to public property. Umm, isn’t that part of upholding the Constitution. What in the hell is happening ??? Who is the joint chief again?? I thought that guy is supposed to receive and obey his orders from SecDef and POTUS????

[Augie]

Mattis might have been a good general at one time.

Then he decided that he didn’t have to do what his boss told him to do.

Now he’s just another never-Trumper @$$hole.

He really ought to be hanged by his treacherous neck until he’s dead.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Its called an attempted coup. Ongoing. They will not stop until they force Trump to martial law. We are dancing around it right now.

[NormsRevenge]

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.

[Vendome]

They didn’t win and this story is a load of crock

They went home after standing down because they were no longer needed.

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

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.

[Sam Gamgee]

Jeez, yes, isn’t the military suppose to have the back of POTUS? Is this the beginning of a coup?

[Candor7]

Esper is as good as gone.

Watch him either resign or get handed his walking papers.

[independentmind]

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.

[unread]

'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..

"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..

[TheConservativeTejano]

This is not good. Why do two former military heads have any say in this at all? What is going on here?

Partner, the 82nd Airborne was not required. This is such a "Fake News" story.

President Trump is in control of the situation.

Some of the former generals wanted the war in Iraq to continue but President Trump said "Heck No" bring our military back to the U.S. We do not operate our military troops for free.