I’d like to point out that while it should be illegal to turn the US military against citizens of the US- it also should be illegal for a rapist, a traitor, and a twice impeached criminal to become elected.
What gets me is that if he had to apply for even a basic security clearance like any other shlub, he would get denied because of his ridiculous web of debt and undue influence, even back in 2015/2016. But he can run for the highest office of the land and have access to the country’s most sensitive info if he wins?
That’s because the United States government classification system is not a single law like the UK’s Official Secrets Act. In the US we use a mixture of Executive orders and 5 or 6 different laws each covering different specific areas.
I’m not well versed in the structure of the american political system.
Did he actually get impeached twice or was it just raised for a vote twice?
Just to be clear on the definition, “impeached” doesn’t mean “removed from office”. To say someone was impeached just means that the House held a hearing.
Clinton was impeached even though he wasn’t removed and completed his term. Same with Trump, though it happened twice.
Nixon was NOT impeached since he resigned before the house could open hearings.
He actually got impeached twice. Never got voted out of office though.
calls to excise “wokeness” and DEI initiatives from the military work as a way to accuse the armed forces of becoming politicized…
It’s a means of applying pressure on the military, creating an environment on the right where there’s a demand for some kind of policy response, and putting the armed forces on the back foot in the right-wing culture wars. And, it leads towards what Trump and the think tankers plotting his return to power have themselves suggested as the appropriate policy response: coopting the military for domestic use.
.And though the president has nearly no constraints on whether he can invoke the [insurrection] act, Joseph Nunn, counsel in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, told TPM, there has historically been one limit: politics.
By the time I get through all the response comments, you all have tricked me into just reading the whole article.
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The major issue is that it requires a majority in the Senate to confirm officers. He doesn’t get to choose replacements.
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Senate approval is needed for any promotion of a military officer. Not sure how much leeway he has to move people around within the same rank.
