The military, DoD, CIA, FBI, et. al. have for a long time had somewhat different ideas about who actually runs the country vs. The People and their elected representatives. That's mostly business-as-usual
That their contempt for Trump should be all the greater in that he shares quite a number of their same attitudes but has the audacity to be about 10% radically different opinions in certain areas isn't too surprising, either. "not invented here"-mentality
The military in the USA have been steadfastly loyal to the Constitution and to the people. CIA, FBI, DOJ seem to have evolved into power centers with their own amoral political interests and no affection for daylight.
Sure. Tell us who furnished the Wikileaks docs, and who killed Seth Rich.
More than half of the veterans who've served in combat I've known personally were liberals/Democrats, sooooo.....
Did that make them disloyal to their Commander in Chief?
I believe that they are expected to obey the orders of superior officers, with some penalties if they don't... all the way up the chain of command. The top military officer now happens to be Donald Trump, the constitutional Commander In Chief.
Funny coincidence, I have sometimes observed criminal behavior too.
He must have forgot. Email him and straighten him out.
The same way the media started applying the term 'Camelot' to the Obama administration when it was a week old.
We who serve in the US Military take an oath to "Uphold the Constitution, and to defend the United States against all enemies, both Foreign and Domestic."
We are not released from that oath, after we are discharged. To the gutless lefties who try to trash America, they will likely never understand this issue.
I look at those who openly brag that they didn't serve but their family members did, to be on the same level of 'Stolen Valor' types.
I served, along with family members of both parents. Most were during WWII, but some during Korea and Vietnam. Mostly in the Army, followed by the Navy and Marines. There was no Air Force when most of them served.
Are you sure that wasn't 'Camel lot'? ;-)
That term applied to Hillary's staff, on loan from Hamas.
But maybe it should also apply to a guy who went to school during his formative years in Indonesia.
This is hilarious: Congress will send their Seargeant at Arms to arrest the President, and Trump will send the US Army to meet him.
Can't wait!
Was that a compliment or an insult?
It was meant as a compliment but wasn't applied to JFK until after he died. Obama got that and a Peace Prize before he broke in his new chair. But whether it should be a compliment depends on whether your ideal form of government includes wizards and unicorns.
Yes, when the Media didn't tell people what kind of a man a politician was. It was a real fantasy world.
It doesn't even include those with delusions of adequacy.
Their Moms and grandmas, too?
One of my Aunts served in the WAC during WWII, and one grandmother was a nurse that worked with Veterans. Did yours?
First he doesn't want me to talk about my family. Now he wants me to answer questions about my family. Sheesh!
Since that wouldn't have been Trump, it isn't a useful question.
They do promise to obey any lawful order, and Trump doesn't seem to have a particularly sound grasp of legal niceities - which is odd in somebody who has been as litigious as he has.
Presumably he sees the law as one more tool to be used to bully other people, and his lawyers do seem to have been a trifle unscrupulous.
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