Posted on 11/09/2024 4:18:34 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers, defense officials told CNN.
Trump has suggested he would be open to using active-duty forces for domestic law enforcement and mass deportations and has indicated he wants to stack the federal government with loyalists and “clean out corrupt actors” in the US national security establishment.
Trump in his last term had a fraught relationship with much of his senior military leadership, including now-retired Gen. Mark Milley who took steps to limit Trump’s ability to use nuclear weapons while he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The president-elect, meanwhile, has repeatedly called US military generals “woke,” “weak” and “ineffective leaders.”
Officials are now gaming out various scenarios as they prepare for an overhaul of the Pentagon.
“We are all preparing and planning for the worst-case scenario, but the reality is that we don’t know how this is going to play out yet,” one defense official said.
Trump’s election has also raised questions inside the Pentagon about what would happen if the president issued an unlawful order, particularly if his political appointees inside the department don’t push back.
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It was OK when Biden produced a directive for this.
Seminar discussions on complex and controversial situations are definitely in order for senior military officers. Scheming to block a specific leader is insubordinate conduct or treason.
Time for lots of polygraph for all top level deep state.
Prosecute Milley for treason and use him and DOJ top people as examples.
I’m sure the Trump team has anticipated the Deep State response from the Military in skirts....
I have an idea how Trump could deal with the tarded generals at the Pentagon
This plotting at Defense proves that they're not apolitical. And that's why they need their asses kicked to the curb.
You can respond by following his damn orders to the letter.
Or you can be fired on the spot.
Well said.
Like a teacher with a new class of students, you must establish your authority up front. Then you can relax it if warranted.
If you do not establish it up front there will be a long battle to regain your authority.
Use Mike Tyson’s rules. Punch them in the mouth hard and then the job is easier.
Wait, what? -oh, right - the political / defense / domestic / economic establishment was fine with it when a gay social worker and his Marxist / Lenist / Muslim Brotherhood pals were doing it . . . . but not so much now
Nobody elected Pentagon officials to ANYTHING. When they get slapped (by American voters), they’ll take it and like it.
DOX those officials. They have 2 months to pack their bags and get the hell out. That subversive train is leaving the station. /spit
Clean house ... send them to the North or South Pole... every last one of them ...
Controversial is not same as illegal. They are duty bound to follow lawful orders.
But duty bound to whom...?
Goose gander dilemma.
“We” did it now we don’t want it done to us
Trump and his team are up against the deep state, the enemy within as it were, it will not be easy
I remember Trump saying over the summer he was going to go after the deep staters. I hope he does otherwise we are going to find ourselves one election away from a one party communist tyranny again.
Trump will need a hard case to be in charge of DOD, State, Homeland Security,and the Intelligence Community. Decades of rot will not be overcome easily. I believe there are many inside those organizations who are loyal to America and have been accumulating evidence and waiting for the day when sanity returns. I was kind of hoping for someone like Allen West to be one of those individuals who will be carrying a big broom and dust pan.
Of course, no names are ever mentioned. I suspect all such stories such as this are nothing but hypothetical musings by the stupid writers.
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