America's most senior general has declared the military will not intervene if Donald Trump were to decline to leave the White House following a disputed US election. In a letter to Congress, Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he did not envisage soldiers playing any role
  • purgegf [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    The context is if the election is still "disputed" by January 20th. In that event, it is the Secret Service's job to remove the previous president, not the military's.

    • CoralMarks [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      So if I would be Trump, I would be replacing anybody at the SS who isn't extremely loyal, right?

    • nameruse [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Who came up with the idea of calling government agencies stuff like "the secret service" anyway? It's hard to think of anything that would sound either more sinister or more juvenile. And there's nothing secret about any of them anyway. The US Secret Service even appears to have hired a publicist to write their Wikipedia article for them. It literally contains the word "synergize".