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riversedge

(73,118 posts) Sat Nov 9, 2024, 05:04 PM Nov 9

Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders

I am still numb from Nov 5 election.

Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/politics/pentagon-officials-discussing-trump/index.html?cid=ios_app

Natasha Bertrand Haley Britzky
Updated 8:32 PM EST, Fri November 8, 2024

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.

Trump in his last term had a fraught relationship with much of his senior military leadership, including now-retired Gen. Mark Milley who took steps to limit Trump’s ability to use nuclear weapons while he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The president-elect, meanwhile, has repeatedly called US military generals “woke,” “weak” and “ineffective leaders.”

Officials are now gaming out various scenarios as they prepare for an overhaul of the Pentagon.

“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. ................

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Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders (Original Post) riversedge Nov 9 OP

Hardening the military against the enemy within. callous taoboy Nov 9 #1

Civilian employees at risk In a video posted last year, Trump said if elected he would "immediately re-issue my 2020 riversedge Nov 9 #2

"We don't know how this will play out yet." Irish_Dem Nov 9 #3

What else are they... 2naSalit Nov 9 #5

True. Irish_Dem Nov 9 #7

Sheeeit! -misanthroptimist Nov 9 #4

That's easy... 2naSalit Nov 9 #6

callous taoboy

(4,673 posts)

1. Hardening the military against the enemy within.

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Sat Nov 9, 2024, 05:10 PM

Nov 9

riversedge

(73,118 posts)

2. Civilian employees at risk In a video posted last year, Trump said if elected he would "immediately re-issue my 2020

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Sat Nov 9, 2024, 05:10 PM

Nov 9

Jeez. It only gets worse the more I read.

Civilian employees at risk

In a video posted last year, Trump said if elected he would “immediately re-issue my 2020 Executive Order restoring the President’s authority to remove rogue bureaucrats…we will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our National Security and Intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them.”

The Pentagon is already bracing for the policy change.

“My email has been inundated on this topic,” one defense official said of Schedule F. “Definitely going to be a busy couple months.”

After Trump issued Schedule F the first time, late into his last term, the Pentagon and other federal agencies were tasked with making lists of which employees would be moved into that category. At the time, defense officials tried to include as few civilian employees as possible to limit the impact to the workforce, sources said. The department is making similar lists now. ......................................................................................