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Trueblue Texan

(3,815 posts) Wed Jan 26, 2022, 10:17 AM Jan 2022

Remember when 10 former secretaries of defense posted that op-ed... [View all]

...about the inappropriate use of the military to decide an election? (see the story here: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/defense-secretaries-letter-warning-trump-signed-days/story?id=75036788)

I wonder if in addition to all the alarming behaviors they were observing from the Trump admin, some of them also got wind of the unsigned executive order being discussed in the media now where the military seizing ballot boxes was proposed. Might be some interesting witnesses in those secretaries.

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Remember when 10 former secretaries of defense posted that op-ed... [View all] Trueblue Texan Jan 2022 OP

Christopher Miller needs to testify under oath gab13by13 Jan 2022 #1

i think they def heard rumblings. mopinko Jan 2022 #2

I think one reason they nixxed the plan... Wounded Bear Jan 2022 #3

That was the consensus of opinion at the time the letter was released. Ford_Prefect Jan 2022 #4

I'm afraid, though, that a few years hence that might not be the case... Wounded Bear Jan 2022 #5

Definitely. At the same time, there had to be loyalist colluders at very high levels who KPN Jan 2022 #8

The military seemed to make clear they wouldn't abet a coup Ponietz Jan 2022 #11

They tried to split Cyber Command and the NSA?! suegeo Jan 2022 #6

Dan Quayle may also have made a few calls obamanut2012 Jan 2022 #7

That letter was Jan. 3, the draft order was mid-December. L. Coyote Jan 2022 #9

Remember when the Pentagon suddenly stopped cooperating with the Biden transition Team? Hieronymus Phact Jan 2022 #10