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the thing trump s generals feared about him could now be arriving

So much has happened since President Trump took office again that it can be hard to keep track of it all. At home and abroad, he has driven change at warp speed, upending policy and challenging democratic norms. Along the way, he’s provided an often unfiltered narration of his own presidency, almost in real time. Here, out of the blur of events, are some of the most consequential, illuminating or just plain remarkable moments from his first year back in the White House. On the afternoon of Sept. 2, Mr.

Trump was in the Oval Office delivering remarks about the U.S. Space Command’s headquarters when he casually mentioned that “we just, over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat.” I had been chronicling all the ways Mr. Trump was expanding executive power, but this immediately stood apart. When a federal judge rebuked the Trump administration’s use of the military in Los Angeles earlier this month, he included a little-noticed but shocking footnote. After National Guard Maj.

Gen. Scott Sherman privately objected to the administration’s planned show of force in the city’s MacArthur Park, the footnote said top Department of Homeland Security official Gregory Bovino set about “questioning Sherman’s loyalty to the... Sherman is an Iraq veteran with 30 years of service, and here was a political appointee suggesting he was disloyal for questioning the administration’s plans. The scene epitomized the political pressure military leaders face as Trump presses forward with deploying the military on US soil and even saying that US cities could be used a “training ground” for troops,... His remarkable speech to military generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia, took things to another level. Do military leaders unquestioningly go along with an extraordinary gambit that critics – including top former military officials from Trump’s first term – have feared could result in a constitutionally corrosive militarization of the...

What was the one thing top military leaders in the Trump administration truly feared? It seems the answer might be arriving now, in real-time. For years, multiple high-ranking generals and former defense officials served under President Donald Trump. During their tenures, a consistent concern emerged regarding Trump’s approach to domestic situations. This concern focused on his repeated desire to involve the military more directly in American soil operations. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signaled that he would make greater use of the U.S.

military to quell disturbances in Democratic-run cities across the United States, warning of a “war from within” and comparing domestic threats to foreign enemies. “The ones that are run by the radical left Democrats... what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places. And we're going to straighten them out one by one. This is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room,” he said in a speech to military leaders. “That's a war too.

It's a war from within.” Trump’s comments were delivered in a speech to almost 800 generals, admirals and senior enlisted advisors who had traveled to a military base in Quantico, Virginia, from around the world at short notice on... Read more: Trump Sends Troops to Portland, Authorizes ‘Full Force, If Necessary’ In a deeply political address, the president criticized his predecessor, Joe Biden, railed against “radical left lunatics,” and announced he would make use of the military more frequently for domestic purposes. ABC's Jonathan Karl has the inside story amid questions raised about the timing. After he won the 2016 election, Donald Trump surrounded himself with strong, decorated military officers who had fought wars and earned the right to have stars on their shoulders.

In January 2017, at a luncheon with congressional leaders immediately following his inauguration, Trump gave a shoutout to the military leaders he put in his Cabinet -- specifically, John Kelly and James Mattis, both... He called them "my generals" and declared: "These are central casting. If I'm doing a movie, I'd pick you generals." He boasted to the congressional leaders the men "are going to keep us so safe." Trump soon found the retired military officers he appointed were not really his generals, after all; they had each sworn an oath to protect the Constitution -- they had not sworn allegiance to Trump. WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump threatened to fire top military leaders who disagree with him at a rare meeting with hundreds of top generals and admirals, while his defense secretary accused the Pentagon of... The president told a packed meeting of commanders in Quantico, Virginia, "If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room.

Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future, but you just feel nice and loose, ok?" At one point during his 72-minute address, Trump referenced a racial slur while discussing nuclear weapons. “I call it the N-word," he told his audience of mostly stone-faced officers. "There are two N-words and you can’t use either of them.” With Trump as his backstop, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unleashed a new array of directives, telling the country's military elite that they had gone soft and his new reforms would weed out political correctness... The addresses by Trump and Hegseth, after top military brass were summoned from commands around the world, came as Trump has ordered U.S.

troops into a growing number of cities to support deportations and suppress crime. A big unknown with President Donald Trump’s move Monday to federalize the DC Metropolitan Police Department and deploy the National Guard in the nation’s capital is how much he wants a crackdown versus the... Trump’s mobilization of the military two months ago in Los Angeles seemed to fit in the latter category. Maybe Trump just wants to look like he’s getting tough on crime in DC. But with Trump’s now-repeated and historically extraordinary deployment of the Guard – and his comments about bringing this approach to other cities – he’s doing what he often does: gradually pushing the envelope and... That might sound overwrought to some.

But it’s worth emphasizing that this is precisely the outcome that multiple top generals and military officials who served in Trump’s first term worried about – and warned about. For years, they’ve cast Trump’s desire to dispatch the military on US soil as one of his most troubling tendencies – and even case-in-point evidence of his authoritarianism.

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