Posted on 11/10/2024 9:17:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
John Frankenheimer directed a movie called Seven Days in May in the 1960s, starring Kirk Douglas as a military officer who uncovers a coup against the president of the United States by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who signed a deeply unpopular nuclear disarmament treaty. That’s a movie. In 2024, the Pentagon brass plotted to countermand President-elect Donald J. Trump’s orders. If we’re going by the Left’s rules here, this is an insurrection. It’s a military coup. What’s worse is that these anti-Trump meetings were held in secret and then got leaked to the media (via CNN):
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.
[…]
“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.
“Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders,” said another defense official. “But the question is what happens then – do we see resignations from senior military leaders? Or would they view that as abandoning their people?”
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
0bama got rid of the top military brass and stacked it with Marxists. Trump did not clean this up in his first term. He won’t have a choice this time.
CNN wasn’t blowing the whistle. It was trumpeting the achievement.
I know. They think it is a good thing.
God didn’t spare trump to let the military insurrectionists.Thwart god’s plan
God, I hate voice to text, it is near blasphemous.
I sure wasn’t going to argue with you.
Obama got rid of ALL THE CHRISTIANS and CONSERVATIVES in the Military and put his STOOGES IN!
COURT MARTIALS and FIRING SQUAD or GITMO!
Fire the generals and staff who participated.
The great thing about an officer’s commission is that it can be revoked in an instant.
Is there a law that says the military can’t arrest illegal aliens inside our country 🤔
A brilliant Navy admiral, who was the “father” of the American nuclear sub programs, once defined how to get the Pentagon under control...
1- Fire erveryone on the top floor and move their job functions to people on the other floors...
2- Fire everyone on the next floor and move their job functions to people on the other floors...
3-...
4-...
Repeat until their is only one floor left and begin canceling half of all the remaining functions...
This is real and it's serious...
Entrenched bureaucrats will do this; they are already making up stories about how when he gets in office they will be asked to do things that are “illegal”.
I am most concerned about a coup attempt similar to the August 1991 coup in the USSR, fomented by yesterday’s men, but very dangerous until contained.
We do not know how deep the Obama-Biden rot goes. I want to believe a coup wherein Trump was detained but not killed would fall apart, like the failed Soviet coup did once the “big men” were revealed as a bunch of losers, more comical than intimidating, and their followers began to turn on them.
Good they are identifying themselves, that’ll save a lot of time
No mercy.
If a presidential action is legal, then it should be done and no dissent should be tolerated. And the media who tries to manipulate the public against the elected president who is acting within law — that media should lose it’s press access. Objective reporting? Yes, please. Democrat activism disguised as journalism? No thanks.
There are at least twice as many generals and admirals at the pentagon than we need. He needs to call each in with an interview with is new Defense Secretary and fire anyone who is identifed as an obstructionist to the CiC’s mission.
Tulsi Gabbard as Sec. of Defense. She’ll clean house.
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