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Trump Acted as Though the Military Swore an Oath to Him Personally
Little surprise that so many of the scandals of his presidency and post-presidency involved the military and national security concerns.
by Theodore R. Johnson, August 19, 2022 5:30 am
Last week, two stunning things came to light regarding our military and the intelligence it produces. The first was General Mark Milley’s written-but-never-sent resignation letter from 2020, accusing then-President Donald Trump of politicizing the armed services, being insufficiently patriotic, ruining the international order, and “doing great and irreparable harm to my country.” The second was the FBI’s execution of a search warrant of Trump’s current residence to recover government property, including eleven sets of classified documents.
These historic occurrences speak to just how deeply Trump believed the military not to be an instrument of national power but an apparatus for personal use. Milley composed his resignation draft after being asked to participate in Trump’s ego-stroke theater—first by conducting a military show of force against Americans upset about George Floyd’s killing days earlier and then being unwittingly drafted into Trump’s infamous march across Lafayette Square after it was forcibly cleared of protesters. Regarding the classified material squirreled away in Mar-a-Lago, the underlying explanation from Trump and his supporters appears to amount to little more than that it was his to do with as he pleased without any regard to the potential damage to our national security interests.
These occurrences bring to the fore a troubling issue usually lurking in the background of civil-military relations: When a president believes his interests supersede the nation’s—or, worse, that his interests become the nation’s—the democratic principle of “civilian control of the military” exposes the armed services to co-option as a partisan tool for domestic politics.
Much of Donald Trump’s presidency demonstrated this peril. His approach to the office resembled the conceit attributed to France’s Louis XIV: L’état, c’est moi—“I am the state.” He and his acolytes acted as though the Constitution meant whatever he said it meant, and thus, the oath military members took to it was received as fealty to the president (the person) and not the presidency (the office). Extending this monarchic view, everything the military does is presumed to be ultimately in service of the man; everything it produces, even highly classified material, is the property of the man. When considered alongside the toxic partisanship and democratic backsliding plaguing the nation—where political opponents are often characterized as existential threats—the line between defense of the nation and partisan expedience is dangerously blurred.
More at https://www.thebulwark.com/trump-acted-as-though-the-military-swore-an
-oath-to-him-personally/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:A Republican politician, who is very pro-Trump, calls for murdering FBI agents because the FBI found Top Secret documents in Trump's closet. Trump should not have those, but the FBI should not have looked, therefore kill the FBI.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
*yawn*
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Uh-huh.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sounds-about-right-ex-cia-chief-mi
chael-hayden-implies-trump-should-be-executed-for-taking-classified-docs/
Probably shouldn't have deep state ex-faces implying that Trump should be executed if your intention isn't to rile up people to say stupid shit, which probably is their intention.
If I'd have said half the threatening stuff about Biden* that you've said about Trump over the years, I'd have the feds busting down my door.
Get fucked, idiot.
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Quote:The additional twist of the Mar-a-Lago scandal, though, is that Trump is now implicitly claiming that total authority even out of office. If, before, Trump was furious that Special Counsel Robert Mueller could investigate him even when he was the president, now he is outraged that the DOJ would investigate him even though he is Trump. Supporters of Trump incensed by the search of Mar-a-Lago, Adam Serwer writes, “simply believe that Trump should not be subject to the law at all.”
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
If I'd have said half the threatening stuff about Biden* that you've said about Trump over the years, I'd have the feds busting down my door.
Get fucked, idiot.
Following the Mar-a-Lago search, Trump’s Republican supporters in Congress have called to “defund the FBI.” Meanwhile, the former president’s aggressive denunciation of the agency and the Justice Department has coincided with a flood of threats against law enforcement, including the magistrate judge who approved the Mar-a-Lago warrant. A bulletin from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security announced that, following the Mar-a-Lago search, the agencies “have observed an increase in violent threats posted on social media against federal officials and facilities.” Last week, a man attacked the FBI field office in Cincinnati; recent posts on Truth Social under the name of the attacker, Ricky Shiffer, had called for people to “get whatever you need to be ready for combat” following the FBI’s arrival at Mar-a-Lago. On Monday, prosecutors brought a case against another man, Adam Bies, who had posted threats against federal agents days after the search of Trump’s estate.
Such threats reveal the disturbing logic behind the GOP calls to defund the agency. The goal is not to critique law-enforcement overreach, but rather, as Zeeshan Aleem argues in MSNBC, to make the bureau “completely subordinate to the authoritarian political project.” And this project is authoritarian, because it locates total power in one person—even, it seems, when he has been voted out of office. This vision of Trump’s authority sets up a parallel structure of political legitimacy that competes with the Constitution.
This is the logic of insurrection. “HEY FEDS,” Bies apparently wrote on the social-media platform Gab two days after the Mar-a-Lago search. “We the people cannot WAIT to water the trees of liberty with your blood.” Meanwhile, Representative Bennie Thompson—the chair of the House committee investigating the insurrection—warned that such apocalyptic comments “are frighteningly similar to those we saw in the run-up to the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.”
After all, if power flows not from structures of law and consent but from the will of a single person, then the measure of whether violence is justified and legitimate no longer turns on whether force is channeled through the proper processes of state authority. Rather, it boils down to a single question: Is that violence wielded on behalf of Trump? Or against him?
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220820161012/https://www.theatlantic.com
/ideas/archive/2022/08/trump-fbi-mar-a-lago-classified-documents/671192/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The additional twist...
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
If I'd have said half the threatening stuff about Biden* that you've said about Trump over the years, I'd have the feds busting down my door.
Get fucked, idiot.
Don't quote me if you're not replying to the quote.
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Quote:6ix, you have all of these delusions mentioned by the Mayo Clinic. Schizophrenia Delusions: These are false beliefs that are not based in reality. For example, you think that you're being harmed or harassed; certain gestures or comments are directed at you; you have exceptional ability or fame; another person is in love with you; or a major catastrophe is about to occur. Example from 6ix: More people will die this winter from Biden's war on Energy and Russia than died of Covid.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't quote me if you're not replying to the quote.
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https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizophrenia/symptoms-
causes/syc-20354443
What is the True Prevalence of Schizophrenia in the United States? The prevalence estimate of schizophrenia is 1.624%, or 3.8 million adults based on data from the 2010 census. This schizophrenia estimate is still likely an underestimate because it misses incarcerated adults who lose Medicaid coverage and those who have never had a treatment contact that would be captured in Medicaid records.
https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/fixing-the-system/features-and
-news/4403-research-weekly-what-is-the-true-prevalence-of-schizophrenia-in-the-united-states
6ix, you are one of 3.8 million schizophrenics in America.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you have all of these delusions mentioned by the Mayo Clinic. Schizophrenia Delusions: These are false beliefs that are not based in reality. For example, you think that you're being harmed or harassed; certain gestures or comments are directed at you; you have exceptional ability or fame; another person is in love with you; or a major catastrophe is about to occur. Example from 6ix: More people will die this winter from Biden's war on Energy and Russia than died of Covid.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't quote me if you're not replying to the quote.
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https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizophrenia/symptoms-
causes/syc-20354443
What is the True Prevalence of Schizophrenia in the United States? The prevalence estimate of schizophrenia is 1.624%, or 3.8 million adults based on data from the 2010 census. This schizophrenia estimate is still likely an underestimate because it misses incarcerated adults who lose Medicaid coverage and those who have never had a treatment contact that would be captured in Medicaid records.
https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/fixing-the-system/features-and
-news/4403-research-weekly-what-is-the-true-prevalence-of-schizophrenia-in-the-united-states
6ix, you are one of 3.8 million schizophrenics in America.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Somebody must have watched a Vausch stream on Schizophrenia or something.
All of the sudden Second thinks it's a doctor, and seems to be littering up all of the threads with his backdoor ally medical diagnoses.
Get fucked, loser.
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Trump rakes in millions off FBI search at Mar-a-Lago
The former president’s political fundraising surged to over $1 million a day
What kind of fucked up cult of stupids sends a million dollars a day in donations to a self-professed billionaire because he got caught stealing national security secrets?
4:23 PM · Aug 17, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1560014440069840907
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Hehe.
Keep on focusing on Trump instead of fixing all of the problems the Biden* Administration and the Democrat party have inflicted on Americans and see where it gets you, buddy.
SPOILER ALERT: Trump wins in 2024, and has the house and Senate with him, minus a great deal of the Neo-Cons and RINOs that helped the Democrats and the Deep State block good sense measures like closing the border.
He's not going to play nice this time.
Democrats are done dude.
Go find a hobby. Your world is about to crumble down around you if you don't do something to distract you from your extreme mental illness.
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Quote:Spoiler Alert: the IRS refunds $10 billion to Trump. Also the FBI can't investigate Trump because Biden does not have the time to supervise and approve every step. Too much paperwork for Biden, so the whole Trump investigation is cancelled.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hehe.
Keep on focusing on Trump instead of fixing all of the problems the Biden* Administration and the Democrat party have inflicted on Americans and see where it gets you, buddy.
SPOILER ALERT: Trump wins in 2024, and has the house and Senate with him, minus a great deal of the Neo-Cons and RINOs that helped the Democrats and the Deep State block good sense measures like closing the border.
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Quote:It is the Republicans who are done:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Democrats are done dude.
Trump blackmails the DOJ by threatening to reveal secrets to foreign powers
Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said he wouldn't put it past the former president to threaten to reveal secrets to foreign powers if the Department of Justice tries to indict him.
Speaking with fill-in host Michael Steele on "The Sunday Show," Cohen was asked why he thinks Trump hauled classified documents to Mar-a-Lago with him after he lost the 2020 presidential election.
"Based on everything you know about him, why do you think he wanted to keep those top secret documents at Mar-a-Lago," host Steele asked.
"He's gonna use it as a get out of jail free card," Cohen immediately shot back. "It's a way to extort America turn around to say if you put me in jail, if you go after me -- he'll even say his children -- I will have my loyal supporters who you do not know who has copies of information that may have been, and again this is my conjecture, that I would take those documents, I will release them to Iran, to China, to North Korea, to Russia.
"You want to take me down, I'll take the whole country down," he added.
"Remember, and I've said this with you 1000 times, Mike, Donald Trump doesn't care about this country," he continued. "He doesn't care about anyone or anything other than himself."
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-2657893304/
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