Two senior soldier-scholars demand Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff remove Trump from office, I

[soothsayer]

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Malcolm Nance
@MalcolmNance
WOW!! Two senior soldier-scholars demand Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff remove Trump from office, IF NECESSARY BY FORCE, if he refuses to accept n election loss and says he will stay in the White House as a dictator.

Fernand R. Amandi
@AmandiOnAir
After today’s historic #BidenHarris announcement, this stark open letter by ret. Lt. Colonel @DrJohnNagl + Paul Yingling, addressed specifically to Chairman of the @thejointstaff, General Milley, is worth your immediate attention.

Please read + share.👇🏼
https://defenseone.com/ideas/2020/08/all-enemies-foreign-and-domestic-open-letter-gen-milley/167625/

[SheltieLover]

1. They should remove him NOW

🤬🤬🤬

[soothsayer]

2. Agreed

[SheltieLover]

19. Ty!

Why always reactive, rather than proactive? And I love that our wonderful Dem House impeached, but why wait for him to create a catastrophic event?

DHS is supposed to protect our country.

[marie999]

5. What part of The Constitution allows them to do that?

[SheltieLover]

6. Well

I don't think what now dead people, who could not fathom a traitor in the WH and coconspirators in the Senate, wrote >200 years ago should matter, tbh. Rump has broken about every law possible in plain sight.

Should we wait until he nukes something? Serious question.

What is dhs for if not to protect our country?

[marie999]

7. So you would rather have a coup than a Constitutional Democratic Republic.

[SheltieLover]

9. Well

It sounds as if you prefer to leave the country in the hands of a stark raving mad putin puppet?

Not a fan of coups, but when the garbage piles up, someone needs to take it out.

Don't worry, my friend, no one else is asking my opinion & all the sophists are wringing their hands rather than having an intel agency remove him.

Just my opinion. I'd rather they remove the lunatic than have everything that is left destroyed.

[marie999]

13. A coup would destroy this country.

[SheltieLover]

14. And

You don't think tRups is doing just that, with the potential for much greater harm?

[marie999]

15. No. There is no coming back from a coup except a civil war. We can defeat the Republicans.

[SheltieLover]

16. There is no coming back

From death either. Ask the 160k your pResident already has murdered.

[malaise]

8. What part of the Constitution allowed him to violate it over and over n/t

[marie999]

10. None, but I would rather have a president that can be taken out of office by an election

than a coup.

[SheltieLover]

12. I concur

Have you been watching what's happening with USPS to try to keep him in power?

[SheltieLover]

11. TY, Malise!

I would much rather have an intel agency remand him to custody than risk nuclear war. 😳

[dware]

29. And just what part of the Constitution allows for the military to remove him

from office before Jan. 20, 2021 at 12:00 noon?

NO military coup, not now, not ever.

[exboyfil]

18. That is the House and Senate's job

The Senate failed miserably. I don't want our military deciding who is the rightful President.

[dware]

27. So, a military coup?

That's what it would be and that's a road we don't want to go down.

[sarisataka]

31. Then will we change the name

to Military Junta Underground?

[dware]

33. Hard to believe that some here, on Democratic Underground,

would even entertain, much less support, a military coup.

[beachbumbob]

3. trump is no longer president after the election defeat and Jan 2021 hits, the MILITARY

will not abide anything he says. US MArshalls will handle the tresspasser

[Kaleva]

4. As retired lieutenant colonels, they aren't exactly senior.

[DVRacer]

17. Yeah O-5 is middle management

The scale for Officers is O-1 to O-10 so a 5 is smack in the middle.

[struggle4progress]

20. Let's stay within recognized legal bounds

[triron]

25. That worked with Hitler didn't it?

[struggle4progress]

30. Don Orangetan doesn't have the support to pull off anything like that

[dware]

32. Hitler had the support of the vast majority of Germans,

whereas, the Mango Menace doesn't.
Huge difference.

[marie999]

21. It is hard to believe that there are members of DU who would sanction a coup.

Do you have any idea what affect a coup would have? If you think that trump is worse than a coup, than you don't have any idea what it would be like living under a military dictatorship.

[a la izquierda]

22. If he overstays his election loss...

He needs to be removed. But to do so beforehand, at the hands of military officials, is getting to a very slippery slope.
The 25th amendment, however, should be invoked.

[marie999]

36. I agree with you.

Unfortunately there isn't any way we could get his cabinet to agree. We need to get out the vote and make it a landslide.

[Happy Hoosier]

23. That is very dangerous....

Including the military in the political process should be the very last resort.

[Hotler]

24. I say have the SS and military pull back from guarding the White House and

let the citizens remove him and is staff.

[obamanut2012]

26. Yeah, no military coup for me, thanks anyway

You folks on her thinking this is a good idea are literally as bad as Trump and his ilk. A coup is a coup is a coup.

[dware]

28. I really wish I could Rec. your post,

but instead, here's this.

[sarisataka]

34. I cannot understand why

people think stereotypical 3rd world government changes are a good idea. Do folks really think after a coup power will just be handed over to someone they approve of and the military goes back like nothing happened?

A military led change of power is about as un-Democratic as you can get. Yet the proposal keeps coming up

[sarisataka]

35. With all due respect to the Colonels

Civilian Federal law enforcement is perfectly capable of removing a delusional person trespassing in the White House.