Leave military out of it, former defence secretaries tell Trump

The Guardian ^ | 3 Jan 21

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

All 10 former US defence secretaries still living, including two who worked for Donald Trump, have called for the president and his supporters to accept he lost the election and warned against attempts to involve the military in his increasingly desperate efforts to overturn the result.

In an unprecedented joint letter published in the Washington Post, the defence secretaries addressed the worst fears of what could happen in 17 days of Trump’s administration remaining before Joe Biden’s inauguration: an attempt by Trump to foment a crises with the aim of triggering a military intervention in his last-ditch struggle to hold on power.

“Efforts to involve the US armed forces in resolving election disputes would take us into dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory,” the letter said.

“Civilian and military officials who direct or carry out such measures would be accountable, including potentially facing criminal penalties, for the grave consequences of their actions on our republic.”

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Unelected traitors.

[gov_bean_ counter]

So much for protecting and defending...

[D Rider]

Arrest them first.

[White Lives Matter]

They’re all entrenched in the Deep State.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The whole lot of them aren't even worth a bucket of warm spit.

[JoSixChip]

Says more about the deep state then anything else. This cannot be allowed to stand at all cost. This is the hill that I am willing to die on.

[BigEdLB]

There is precedent - 1872 - electors rejected over conern of fraud:

Arkansas
Arkansas voted for the Republican candidate, Ulysses S. Grant, over Liberal Republican candidate Horace Greeley. Grant won Arkansas by a margin of 4.34%. However, due to the turbulent conditions of Reconstruction, along with various irregularities and allegations of electoral fraud, Congress rejected Arkansas's six electoral votes. Neighboring Louisiana's electoral votes were also rejected.

Louisiana
Louisiana voted for the Republican candidate, Ulysses S. Grant, over Liberal Republican candidate Horace Greeley. Grant won Louisiana by a margin of 11.38%. However, due to the turbulent conditions of Reconstruction, along with various irregularities and allegations of electoral fraud, Congress rejected Louisiana's eight electoral votes. Neighboring Arkansas's electoral votes were also rejected.

This is from Wikipedia, so it's less than perfect, I am a presidential election nerd, so I knew about this - but this is an accurate picture as I understand it, of those two states in 1872. Electoral; votes rejected on the basis of a concern of fraud.

[kiryandil]

"The Guardian"

       

[SteveH]

IIRC, all former defense secretaries are political appointees, not necessarily real military folks. And real military folks hold defense secretaries in contempt.

[FreedomPoster]

If military intelligence structures have knowledge of the steal in general, and foreign involvement in particular, they damn well better get involved.

[conservativepoet]

How about posting some good news. There’s plenty out there.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"All 10 former US defence secretaries still living, including two who worked for Donald Trump, have called for the president and his supporters to accept he lost the election"

Traitors must swing. We do not accept the results of the Stalinazi coup d'état.

[McGruff]

Smells like bovine excrement.

[sauropod]

This includes Esper and Mattis. And Cheney. And Rumsfeld.

I’m not surprised.

[ClearCase_guy]

All enemies, foreign and domestic.

Is that too hard?

[mass55th]

"Unelected traitors."

For some odd reason, all these has-beens think people actually care what they have to say.

[RBW in PA]

Boy if militias are making lists, this election sure provided who should be on it.

[rintintin]

“Dick Cheney, defence secretary under George HW Bush, and vice-president to his son, George W Bush, and Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary in the younger Bush’s administration, also signed.”

How many freepers used to worship George W Bush and praise his Iraq war?

[DesertRhino]

The military standing by doing nothing when America is being handed over to the communists. Shameful. But It’s ok, most above O-5 are not trustworthy anyway. hey have been all in on the trannies, women, homo , SJW, BLM, gun control, globalism, JFK School of Government, Vindman loving, change base names thing.

[AndyJackson]

Cheney. The guy who turned DC and the surrounding counties over to a massive increase in worthless defense consultancies. That Cheney? I am shocked beyond belief. That man is single-handedly more responsible for the growth of the deep state and the fetid corruption of the swamp than any other man dead or alive.