President Donald J. Trump boards Marine One in Bedminster, New Jersey, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, en route to Long Branch, New Jersey. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)
The left’s refusal to accept the result of the 2016 election is on full display in an open letter by two former Army officers who charge Trump is assembling an army of “little green men” to keep him in the White House after his term is over.
The wild claims come from John Nagl and Paul Yingling statement published by Defense One.
They believe Trump will lose the 2020 election and then refuse to leave the White House, leaving Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with two options.
“Under the first, U.S. military forces escort the former president from the White House grounds. Trump’s little green men, so intimidating to lightly armed federal law enforcement agents, step aside and fade away, realizing they would not constitute a good morning’s work for a brigade of the 82nd Airborne. Under the second, the U.S. military remains inert while the Constitution dies,” they wrote
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“Then-candidate Pete Buttigieg was asked about it by reporters. CNN ran a piece in February asking what might happen if Trump refused to leave the White House peacefully. Rep. Maxine Waters just last month said the rioting in Portland was a ‘trial run’ for when Trump refuses to leave office. It’s ridiculous.”
An F/A-18F Super Hornet prepares to launch from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford during operations in the Atlantic Ocean, Aug 1, 2020. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Aimee Ford)
Nagl and Yingling warned Milley: “As the senior military officer of the United States, the choice between these two options lies with you. In the constitutional crisis described above, your duty is to give unambiguous orders directing U.S. military forces to support the constitutional transfer of power. Should you remain silent, you will be complicit in a coup d’état. You were rightly criticized for your prior active complicity in the president’s use of force against peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square. Your passive complicity in an extralegal seizure of political power would be far worse.”
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The former officers claim Trump “is actively subverting our electoral system, threatening to remain in office in defiance of our Constitution.”
They said he is facing “near certain electoral defeat” along with “criminal charges” once he is no longer in office.
The White House North Portico is lit in red, white and blue lights Saturday evening, July 4, 2020, during the Salute to America 2020, Fourth of July celebration. (Official White House photo by Katie Ricks)
“Mr. Trump is assembling a private army capable of thwarting not only the will of the electorate but also the capacities of ordinary law enforcement. When these forces collide on January 20, 2021, the U.S. military will be the only institution capable of upholding our constitutional order,” they wrote.
They alleged the president “is following the playbook of dictators throughout history: he is building a private army answerable only to him. When Caesar faced the prospect of a trial in Rome, he did not return to face his day in court. He unleashed an army personally loyal to him alone on the Roman government. No student of history, Mr. Trump nevertheless appears to be following Caesar’s example. The president’s use of militarized Homeland Security agents against domestic political demonstrations constitutes the creation of a paramilitary force unaccountable to the public. The members of this private army, often lacking police insignia or other identification, exist not to enforce the law but to intimidate the president’s political opponents.”
