Posted on 01/19/2021 4:09:21 AM PST by gattaca
Rep. Cohen went so far in his smear of Trump voters that even the Washington Post and CNN pushed back.
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., suggested on Monday that people in the National Guard who have been activated to secure the inauguration on Wednesday of President-elect Joe Biden might be Trump supporters and therefore "might want to do something" to Biden or disrupt the event.
25,000 National Guard troops have been deployed to Washington to secure the event following the Jan. 6 disruption at the U.S. Capitol that resulted in five deaths and the destruction of property while Congress was in session to certify the electors in the presidential election.
The FBI has been involved in vetting deployed members of the Guard to be sure that none of them will pose a threat to the inauguration or to Joe Biden.
"The U.S. Army issued a statement late Sunday obtained by Fox News that said it is working with the Secret Service to determine if any service members on hand need additional background screening. The statement said that all service members are familiar with the Threat Awareness and Reporting Program, which 'requires department personnel to report any information regarding known or suspected extremist behavior that could be a threat to the department or the U.S.'"
But Rep. Cohen took it a step further: "The [National] Guard is 90 some-odd percent male, and only about 20 percent of white males voted for Biden," he said. "You've got to figure that in the Guard, which is predominantly more conservative … they're probably not more than 25 percent of the people there protecting us that voted for Biden. The other 75 percent are in the large class of folks that might want to do something."
The implication from Cohen that being a Trump voter makes one a possible seditionist or a threat to the safety of the President-elect was pushed back on from both CNN and the Washington Post, two news outlets that have themselves been harsh critics of President Trump.
CNN's Jim Sciutto said that being a Trump voter was "far different from being a threat of violence." He asked Cohen if he had any evidence to back up his assertion that these people represented a threat. "Absolutely not," said Cohen. He said "you draw a circle first" around the Trump voters and said that they are people who you should be "suspect of."
Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post fact-checker, also criticized Cohen.
"Hmmm, does a Democratic congressman really want to suggest that if you voted for Trump you might be a seditionist?" Kessler tweeted. "What happened to the idea that military people are professionals and do their jobs regardless of political preferences?"
gentlemen , you are our last hope
about face , forward to the foe
Not just surgeons. He's going to have trouble finding a non-Trump voting dentist or plumber, too.
The Soviet Union had Political Officers, right? If a soldier showed insufficient loyalty to The Party, then they would be summarily dealt with, IIRC.
If they sent home all the Trump supporters there would be 5 left to protect Biden.
I think he is the ‘KFC Chicken Man’ from the Kavanagh hearings. What a POS.
There is no maximum for the reveal of paranoia.
Steve Cohen if steeped in amore than a few symptoms of mental disorder. And yet, he is walking around. And I think he may have an actual home to go back to every night.
Any number of his compatriots may be seen on the streets of Los Angeles standing on a corner, dressed in rags, shouting out that some dire fate awaits us all.
Men and women of all backgrounds who passed together through gates of fitness, competence, loyalty, and perhaps even combat, are now “suspect.”
This is the Orwellian world they cheated for.
Look who is calling suspect, suspect
This is another case of a nobody wanting their 5 minutes of notoriety by playing to the leftist knuckle draggers. Saying outrageous things and hating Trump supporters might give him 5 minutes on MSNBC.
Speaking of the USSS..
I’ve always taken pains to use the four letter acronym when discussing the United States Secret Service.
But if BiteMe is installed tomorrow, the USSS will no longer be the USSS, but the SS.
The two letter acronym will then be fitting because we will have ceased to be a republic.
Every single time, the Leftists don’t let us down when we predict that as soon as they get their hands close to the levers of power, that their inner tyrants will invariably reveal themselves.
They simply cannot help it.
And to think we have Republicans in Congress siding with these evil traitors.
Would it not be providential that the members of the National Guard took their oath to the Constitution seriously?
“All enemies Foreign and DOMESTIC”......
Might have to start calling slo' Joe' "president strawberries"
They’re just like bank robbers aren’t they, they may get away with the money but they’ll never get rid of the paranoia that one day they may face justice. That ain’t our fault pal!
This is what is getting the Treasonists nervous:
Each person enlisting in the National Guard shall sign an enlistment contract and subscribe to the following oath:
“I do hereby acknowledge to have voluntarily enlisted this __ day of ____, 19_, in the ______ National Guard of the State of ______ for a period of __ year(s) under the conditions prescribed by law, unless sooner discharged by proper authority.
“I, ________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and of the State of ______ against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to them”
The National Guards first and foremost duty is to support and defend the constitution, not support and defend a bunch of scumrat mofos who shred it.
There is ample evidence that when the Democrats assume Power that they are going after Trump supporters. For their purposes all Republicans are Trump supporters. They keep yapping about 2022 and 2024. Do not they have the intelligence to understand that if they were able to steal the 2020 election that they can and will steal the 2022 election and the 2024 election? Honest elections in America are over if they are allowed to steal the 2020 election. From this point in time forward every election held in America will be a Stalin era Soviet Union type. The Constitutional Republic is dead.
Political reliability. I expect Biden to announce a new corps of officers - the Zampolit. Political officers to ensure ideological purity in the armed forces.
TUCKER CARLSON 1/18/2021 MUST-SEE RANT
Absolute best and most important Tucker ever.
Critical to watch and share as widely as possible, as our military becomes a politicized branch of the DemSocRat party, and America slides into tyranny.
https://www.brighteon.com/f9c4a901-08ea-4438-94a6-bf257e1cdc33
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