Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil

[demmiblue]

The Army Navy Country Club is a high-class place.

The members-only club is located in Arlington, Virginia, five miles from the heart of the nation’s capital. The club bills itself as an exclusive “backyard” to the District of Columbia’s political and military “elite,” boasting a number of former presidents, congressional leaders and military brass among its legacy roster. Its 500 rambling acres of Virginia greenery offer a scene of antebellum pretense, filled with championship golf courses and innumerable tennis courts. There, within sight of the Washington Monument, D.C.’s creme de la creme can luxuriate and unwind in card rooms and at “roof top socials,” or gorge themselves at banquets and brunches.

Or, they can plot ways to deploy the military on U.S. soil, where troops could be used against Americans.

In May 2024, according to documents obtained by Cochise Regional News and Phoenix New Times, the Army Navy Country Club was the backdrop of just such a scheme. As Donald Trump was escalating his campaign to regain the White House, a cadre of figures from Trump’s orbit gathered at the club for a brunch meeting focused on military aspects of Project 2025. Among their ranks were law enforcement personnel and former military and civilian officials from the first Trump administration. Several would go on to work under Trump a second time.

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/trumpists-plotted-deploy-military-on-us-soil-before-election-40650142/

This is just astonishingly great reporting.

All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.

And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) 2026-03-10T18:05:45.282Z

[Mme. Defarge]

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