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Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US
abcnews ^ | 11/26/2023 | GARY FIELDS

Posted on 11/27/2023 6:56:17 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

WASHINGTON -- Campaigning in Iowa this year, Donald Trump said he was prevented during his presidency from using the military to quell violence in primarily Democratic cities and states.

Calling New York City and Chicago “crime dens,” the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination told his audience, “The next time, I’m not waiting. One of the things I did was let them run it and we’re going to show how bad a job they do,” he said. “Well, we did that. We don’t have to wait any longer.”

Trump has not spelled out precisely how he might use the military during a second term, although he and his advisers have suggested they would have wide latitude to call up units. While deploying the military regularly within the country's borders would be a departure from tradition, the former president already has signaled an aggressive agenda if he wins, from mass deportations to travel bans imposed on certain Muslim-majority countries.

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Bush 41 was the last to use it in 1992 during the LA riots.
1 posted on 11/27/2023 6:56:17 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I want to see military tribunals investigate the Deep State.


2 posted on 11/27/2023 6:59:00 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I cannot lie and say this kind of talk doesn’t raise concerns, but if I am looking at the direction of this nation and the blue cities...it just might be needed.

Liberals will be sounding the wrongful imprisonment sirens next though...and raising money for their side to deal with all these legal shenanigans.


3 posted on 11/27/2023 6:59:06 AM PST by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t think the military or any Federal funds should ever be used to “quell violence in democrat cities and states”, they wanted it, they voted for it, they own it, let them keep it.


4 posted on 11/27/2023 7:01:24 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

Depends how bad it gets, if turf wars start crossing state lines this may be a serious possibility. I really think it would be more to boost policing efforts temporarily.


5 posted on 11/27/2023 7:05:01 AM PST by wiseprince (Me)
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To: eyeamok

I don’t see the police doing much of anything except arrest a few but then they’re out before the cops can have a second cup of coffee.


6 posted on 11/27/2023 7:07:58 AM PST by airdalecheif
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This violates the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.
The National Guard can be involved but not the Military.


7 posted on 11/27/2023 7:08:09 AM PST by Zathras
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Here, DJT saying what should happen to shoplifters and rioters and looters...

TO BE SHOT! SHOT!

8 posted on 11/27/2023 7:09:30 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"I want to see military tribunals investigate the Deep State."

Why would the military investigate a club they are a member of?

9 posted on 11/27/2023 7:09:54 AM PST by buckalfa (Gut feelings are your guardian angels)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Like in Revolutionary France, Bolshevik Russia, Mao’s China, Castro’s Cuba, etc. and a myriad of other places where utopian solutions have been tried!

What makes you think the military that performed so well in the Afghanistan withdrawal, now is LBGT compliant, has their pronouns right will be an honorable arbitrator of justice? I guess it will be the military of your imagination!

Military rule let out of the box historically will not willingly go back in the box!

Throwing out the Constitution is what the left does! You want to copy it?


10 posted on 11/27/2023 7:10:36 AM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I want to see military tribunals investigate the Deep State.

You are aware that DJT re-wrote the military code for Courts Martial, to include civilians?

Yep, EO 13825, March 1 2018.

11 posted on 11/27/2023 7:11:19 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bad idea. If Trump uses the US military domestically, the next Democrat president will be emboldened to do the same. And you can be sure that Democrat will not have the best interests of America at heart.

So if there is trouble in, say, New York City call out the New York National Guard.

The only exception is guarding the nation’s borders. That’s where the military belongs. And that’s where it isn’t.


13 posted on 11/27/2023 7:19:47 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Reily

It would certainly be a double edged sword, the democrats would use the military against us for sure, given an excuse to do so.

As if they aren’t already, to some extent.


14 posted on 11/27/2023 7:20:07 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: BabaOreally

I’d like to see 12-15 month enlistments. Get them right out of HS and serve for a year or so in time to start school in the fall at age 19 or so. No technical training, just infantry. They can serve here or in Iraq. What’s in it for them? A $2k IRA and a lot of financial advice every step of the way.

When their enlistment is up make sure more universities are turned into technical trade schools. Americorp was started to turn the young into leftists. Same with. the Peace Corps. A short, one year service would be tolerable. Just don’t give them too many veteran benefits. An IRA would do.


15 posted on 11/27/2023 7:20:14 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Trump has not spelled out precisely how he might use the military during a second term,

So ABC News will helpfully make up some options to scare their ignorant AF news consumers.

16 posted on 11/27/2023 7:20:16 AM PST by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

LBJ did not hesitate to deploy the military for the riots of the 1960’s, JFK sent the military to enforce integration, protect civil rights protesters.

And Ike deployed paratroopers to Little Rock to integrate the high school in 1957.

There are precedents.


17 posted on 11/27/2023 7:21:03 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: eyeamok
I don’t think the military or any Federal funds should ever be used to “quell violence in democrat cities and states”,...

I understand your concern, but times have changed.

15 million illegal foreign invaders were just let into the country.

18 posted on 11/27/2023 7:22:02 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So who stopped him. He was too busy dancing at rallies. Hope he actually does better this time.


19 posted on 11/27/2023 7:22:54 AM PST by lonster
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To: C210N
--- "EO 13825, March 1 2018." Not quite as you present it, as I read through it. Would you care to be more specific?

2018 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States

20 posted on 11/27/2023 7:23:56 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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