Trump’s ‘war within’ should terrify everyone

Trump Tells Top Military Brass to Prepare for War Against ‘Enemy from Within’

President Donald Trump, in an address to the U.S.’ top military officials Tuesday, stressed that after decades of military campaigns abroad, it was time to turn the armed forces inwards against an unspecified “enemy from within.”

“Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia, while America is under invasion from within,” the president said. 

“We’re under invasion from within,” Trump repeated. “No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don’t wear uniforms. At least when they’re wearing a uniform you can take them out.”

“It’s war from within,” he added.

The president’s alarming comments during an unprecedented gathering of around 800 generals and admirals came as he is increasingly attempting to use the military as a domestic police force while claiming to designate Americans as domestic terrorists.

Virginia Burger, a senior defense analyst at the Project on Government Oversight, told Democracy Docket that while Trump has made similar comments in the past, his remarks this time were addressed to the people most likely to stand in his way.

“It was in line with things he’s already said, but it was especially concerning to have him say it to a room full of the people who would most likely be the ones to stand in front of him and tell him no,” Burger said.

Commissioned officers of the U.S. military take an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. They are also required to refuse illegal orders that violate the Constitution, federal law or international human rights standards.

This should alarm everyone.

His push to use ICE as a fiction point in Blue States and then to militarise protection of those ICE frictions WHILE TELLING the military to prepare for a ‘war from within’ is an alarming escalation from a President who sees no limits to his power.

Could you imagine the Upraor from the Right if a Democratic President had embarked upon seeing armed troops to Republican States?

The hypocrisy and abuse of power is beyond anything we’ve experienced before.

I told you he was an Orange Fascist the moment he won.

If this was being done by the Left, you MAGA apologists would be screaming.

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