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(12,870 posts) Sat Nov 16, 2024, 10:14 PM Saturday

Trump transition team compiling list of current and former U.S. military officers for possible courts-martial

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Source: NBC News

By Courtney Kube, Carol E. Lee, Vaughn Hillyard and Mosheh Gains

The Trump transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officers who were directly involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and exploring whether they could be court-martialed for their involvement, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the plan.

Officials working on the transition are considering creating a commission to investigate the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, including gathering information about who was directly involved in the decision-making for the military, how it was carried out, and whether the military leaders could be eligible for charges as serious as treason, the U.S. official and person with knowledge of the plan said.

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It’s not clear the Trump administration would pursue treason charges, and instead could focus on lesser charges that highlight the officer’s involvement. “They want to set an example,” said the person with knowledge of the plan.
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Former officials ...advised against actions that they thought might violate the Constitution or inflame tensions domestically, such as deploying active-duty U.S. troops to quell protests after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-transition-team-compiling-list-current-former-us-military-office-rcna180489

"Might violate the Constitution"...2nd Amendment anyone?

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Trump transition team compiling list of current and former U.S. military officers for possible courts-martial (Original Post) AntiFascist Saturday OP

Continue to beat the dead Afghanistan horse. J_William_Ryan Saturday #1

Is this the treason charge that could put drump in jail? Arne Saturday #2

You got it right my friend BOSSHOG Saturday #4

Members of the party of responsibility BOSSHOG Saturday #3

Trump courts martial himself? cbabe Saturday #5

Well, trump has us looking like a 3rd World country. Next, we might experience a military coup when he takes office. Silent Type Saturday #6

Tick tock dweller Saturday #9

Night of the Long Knives. nt cstanleytech Saturday #7

This is Trump's way of trying to absolve himself Blue_Tires Saturday #8

AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING Omaha Steve Saturday #10

J_William_Ryan

(2,124 posts)

1. Continue to beat the dead Afghanistan horse.

Reply to AntiFascist (Original post)

Sat Nov 16, 2024, 10:20 PM

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More bad faith political theater from the fascist Trump administration, pandering to the burn it all down Trump Cult.

Arne

(3,601 posts)

2. Is this the treason charge that could put drump in jail?

Reply to AntiFascist (Original post)

Sat Nov 16, 2024, 10:23 PM

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Wasn't he responsible for that withdrawal or did
I get that wrong?

BOSSHOG

(39,836 posts)

4. You got it right my friend

Reply to Arne (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 16, 2024, 10:25 PM

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BOSSHOG

(39,836 posts)

3. Members of the party of responsibility

Reply to AntiFascist (Original post)

Sat Nov 16, 2024, 10:23 PM

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LED by a man convicted of 34 felonies and getting away with it want to hold others accountable for non existent crimes.

The Republican Party makes me contemplate the thought. I wasted 30 years of military service to our country. Thanks neighbors.

cbabe

(4,155 posts)

5. Trump courts martial himself?

Reply to AntiFascist (Original post)

Sat Nov 16, 2024, 10:26 PM

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https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5090061/the-chaotic-u-s-exit-from-afghanistan-in-2021-had-stems-from-four-administrations

The chaotic U.S. exit from Afghanistan in 2021 had stems from four administrations

AUGUST 27, 20246:53 PM ET
HEARD ON ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
By
Tom Bowman
Quil Lawrence

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Well, Juana, it's important to note that it was the Trump administration that signed this peace deal that was basically a quick exit plan. It called for all U.S. troops to be out by May 2021. Then, after the election, Trump reduced the American troops from 5,000 to 2,500, even though the Taliban did not live up to the agreement, including talking to the Afghan government. And one of his aides then went to the Pentagon and said all troops out by January 15, just five days before Biden was to be inaugurated. Pentagon officials balked and said it can't possibly be done that quickly.

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Silent Type

(6,652 posts)

6. Well, trump has us looking like a 3rd World country. Next, we might experience a military coup when he takes office.

Reply to AntiFascist (Original post)

Sat Nov 16, 2024, 10:27 PM

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dweller

(25,035 posts)

9. Tick tock

Reply to Silent Type (Reply #6)

Sat Nov 16, 2024, 10:44 PM

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Wonder how many top brass are looking at 14 A sec 3 right now ?
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cstanleytech

(26,993 posts)

7. Night of the Long Knives. nt

Reply to AntiFascist (Original post)

Sat Nov 16, 2024, 10:32 PM

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Blue_Tires

(55,776 posts)

8. This is Trump's way of trying to absolve himself

Reply to AntiFascist (Original post)

Sat Nov 16, 2024, 10:34 PM

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And make everyone forget his culpability...

TRUMP invited the fucking Taliban to Camp David

TRUMP agreed to the Taliban's hard deadline for withdrawal

TRUMP freed 5000 terrorists from prison early

TRUMP ordered all the airbases but one to be shut down, guaranteeing a clusterfuck of chaos

Everybody needs to be archiving and preserving records, documents, news stories, etc because Donnie and his cultists are going to be busy rewriting the official history of his first term -- He's already got people believing that COVID-19 never happened, and even if it did, nobody died and Donnie was the true hero of the pandemic...

Omaha Steve

(103,442 posts)

10. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

Reply to AntiFascist (Original post)

Sat Nov 16, 2024, 10:55 PM

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