Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders

[groundloop]

Source: 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.

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“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.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/politics/pentagon-officials-discussing-trump/index.html

[neverforget]

1. IF??????? It is guaran-fucking-teed he's going too. Trump and his allies have talked about it.

God we're in for a world of hurt

[TBF]

2. They've just now started working on this???? nt

[Alice B.]

5. Now that you point that out

My hopes that current structures and the administration have been planning for worst case scenarios are deflating.

[Martin68]

8. Give them a break. They have a lot of responsibility, and a lot to think about. Until now, a second Trump term was a

hypothetical. You think you could do a better job?

[TBF]

9. It's not my job to run the military -

and yes I think people who are doing that work should have thought about what might occur should he win. It's not like the campaign started a week ago.

[Martin68]

13. You can be sure they've discussed it, but they were not going to take time away from more important issues

until the election was over. They have a lot on their plate.

[TBF]

14. Yes, that makes sense.

Sorry, I've been testy the past few days. I'm starting to calm down now. I was not expecting people to be stupid enough to re-elect Trump.

[Martin68]

17. I get it. Me too. We're on the same page here.

[Lulu KC]

11. They've just now starting telling us they're working on it

These are planners. They've been talking about it for a long time.

[TBF]

15. Thanks Lulu - that of course makes sense. nt

[Jit423]

3. What if he gave an order and nobody came?

Would we call that a military coup?

THINK HARD ABOUT THIS.

[sarisataka]

4. No, a coup is a takeover of government

disobeying illegal orders is a duty.

[orangecrush]

18. Congratulations

On your 138 posts.

And fuck Donald Trump.

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. I expect there will be a series of "Saturday night massacres"

He will fire whole batches of “disloyal” officers, and replace them with Good Germans who will follow every order.

[Martin68]

7. I'm glad to hear they understand the threat and are discussing how to meet their constitutional obligations when faced

with a demented Commander in Chief.

[LudwigPastorius]

10. "Trump's election has also raised questions...about what would happen if the president issued an unlawful order..."

[AntiFascist]

12. This is what the framers of the Constitution feared when the 2nd Amendment was drafted...

what a tyrannical leader might do once they had control of a standing army. The Constitution has its own "break the glass in case of emergency" measure in order to help protect its role as the ONLY thing that ultimately rules the nation.

[markercirca]

16. This sounds like

a building military coup/insurrection against a civilly elected leader. This better be fake news.