Trump Wants to Use the Military Against His Domestic Enemies. Congress Must Act.

The Insurrection Act – which gives the president unchecked power to deploy the military on American streets – is a threat to democracy.

Per the above article: “Trump Wants to Use the Military Against His Domestic Enemies. The Insurrection Act — which gives the president unchecked power to deploy the military on American streets”.

“As recent reports have revealed, former President Donald Trump and his allies are making plans for how a second Trump administration would use the powers of the federal government to punish Trump’s critics and political opponents. Among other things, Trump would reportedly invoke the Insurrection Act — a law that gives the president nearly unchecked powers to use the military as a domestic police force — on his first day in office, so that he could quash any public protests against him.

Federal military forces are usually barred from enforcing civilian laws by the Posse Comitatus Act. This prohibition reflects a tradition in American law and political thought that views an army turned inward as an inherent threat to democracy and individual liberty. But the Posse Comitatus Act is not an absolute rule. It allows federal troops to participate in law enforcement when doing so has been expressly authorized by Congress. The Insurrection Act provides that authorization”.

 

Trump’s Promises and Plans for 2025 — in his own words

There’s no mystery about what Donald Trump wants to do in his second term. He’s told us his plans and Project 2025 is how Trump’s rhetoric will become an authoritarian reality for us all. Here’s what he has promised, in his own words.

1 – Pardon power
Trump will use his pardon power to shield himself and his allies from criminal accountability

2 – Directing Investigations Against Critics and Rivals
He’s promised to order the Department of Justice to investigate people who challenge him.

3 – Regulatory Retaliation
Trump has also promised to purge professional staff and experts inside the government and replace them with “Yes” Men and Women.

4 – Federal Law Enforcement Overreach
Trump plans to explode police powers in ways that would make America unrecognizable.

5 – Domestic Deployment of the Military
Trump wants to use the military to police our streets and send troops to our cities over the will of state and local officials.

6 – The Autocrat Won’t Leave
AND, like he showed us in 2020 and on January 6th, that if he is elected to office, he will be unwilling to leave. He’s willing to use every tool at his disposal to remain in power.

These promises are not just words; they are tactics pulled straight from the authoritarian playbook.

 

The Associated Press details Donald Trump’s repeated “hints” of an “expanded role” for the military and the lack of “guardrails” to restrain him.

 

Let’s not forget how Trump used National Guard troops to forcefully push back peaceful protesters outside the White House to clear a way for Trump to do a photo-op in front of a church to hold a bible upside down.

 

 

Representative Gerry Connolly explains how Trump plans replace 50,000 Federal Employees with Trump loyalists, gut the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, invocation of the Insurrection Act on day one to QUASH protests against him. Termination of all rules, regulations & articles, even those in the Constitution if Trump is elected for a 2nd term as President.

 

Little-known lawyer pitched Trump on ‘martial law’ plan

Trump in December 2020 was entertaining fringe legal advice from a wider group of outside lawyers than was previously known as he sought to block the 2020 election result. That included hearing directly from a little-known conservative lawyer advising Trump to take steps that effectively could be called declaration of “martial law,” the New York Times reported, in another instance of fringe actors having pushed the President to take extreme steps after the 2020 election.

 

In a new report, The Associated Press details Trump’s plans to deploy the military to push his MAGA agenda

 

Trump Plans To Use Military To Attack Liberal Cities

Donald Trump has made it perfectly clear that he intends to invoke The Insurrection Act if he gets back into the White House, and has suggested that he would have the military march into blue cities and states. This would be done, according to Trump, to stop the “crime” that liberal cities are allegedly suffering from, but experts are sounding the alarm that this is just a farce. Trump will crush his political enemies with the full might of the military, and that is something that isn’t being talked about enough.

 

Republicans OK with Violence to Seize Power

 

March 28, 2024 Steve Bannon stated: “After we’ve won the Accountability Project’s going to start and it’s going to be thorough this time. It’s going to be they’re going to be in prison”.

 

Trump posted & stated on 11/11/2023; ”We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections”.

 

In response to outrage over Trump’s ‘vermin’ comment, his campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung stated about Trump opponents; “their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”

Democrats are not Socialist, Marxist or Communists. Trump and Republicans are the ones who LIE , cheat and tried to steal the 2020 election.

 

The above video proves it’s TRUMP who is the liar. The Washington Post reported that Trump made over 30,000 false or misleading statements during his time in office.

 

 

Trump and Republicans are the REAL Fascist

 

Radical Right Winger Mike Davis, who Trump might make his Attorney General has stated he’d pardon all of the January 6 rioters, toss opponents in ‘the gulag’ and caging migrant kids would be glorious.

Below is the post Davis referenced in the above video about putting Professor of History, Ruth Ben-Ghiat in the “Gulag”. Her crime? Being critical of Trump and calling him out for his Autocrat, Authoritarian, Fascist behavior which she claims is similar to Hitler & Mussolini.

 

 

 

Kash Patel, who may be a member of Trump’s administration, stated in the above video; “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Patel said. “Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we’re going to come after you.

 

Steve Bannon Calls on “SHOCK TROOPS” to Take Over Government

 

Trump says members of Jan. 6 Select Committee should go to jail

Under Republicans “Project 2025” plans, Trump could order his Attorney General to arrest and prosecute anyone for no reason at all. Trump even mentioned this in the above video saying if he had a political rival who was doing well and “beating me very badly I’d say go down and Indict them”. “That means that if I win and somebody wants to run against me, I call my attorney general, I say listen, indict him.

 

On “The View” (Dec 6, 2023) co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House Director of Strategic Communications for Trump, claimed he wanted to have a member of his own staff ‘executed’ for leaking a story about him going to the bunker during the George Floyd protests.

 

Three former Trump White House staffers says a 2nd Trump term would be ‘the end of American democracy as we know it’

 

 

Trump behaving like an Authoritarian Fascist Dictator

 

Trump saying he has “Total Authority” over when to re-open the country and insinuating if States don’t follow his orders it would be Mutiny is yet another example that he is a Wanna-Be King & Dictator.

 

Throughout his presidency, Trump has, at every turn, advanced extreme legal arguments and made excuses to avoid the traditional oversight that previous presidents have accepted. In the process, he has negated the checks and balances that are at the heart of our constitutional system, and elevated himself to a king-like position.

 

While campaigning in Iowa, Trump hinted at expanding the use of the military under the Insurrection Act. He specifically named blue cities like New York and Chicago calling them “crime dens.” “The next time, I’m not waiting. One of the things I did was let them run it and we’re going to show how bad a job they do”.

 

Trump’s admiration of dictators and scorn of our allies is one the most dangerous threat to our democracies our country has ever faced

 

Title from Youtube: President Trump: My People Should Give Me The Attention Kim Jong Un Gets

During an interview with Fox News’s Steve Doocy Trump stated regarding North Korea’s brutal dictator Kim Jong Un; “He’s the head of a country and he’s the strong head. Don’t let anyone think anything different,” Trump said “He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.

 

Trump plans to expand executive power if he’s elected

Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, according to NYT reporting.

 

Trump is ‘making no effort to hide his fundamentally autocratic intentions’

Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes reacts to reporting on plans by Donald Trump to remove any and all obstacles to his power in a potential second term

 

 

 

 

Trump is ‘more erratic, more unstable’ than when he was in the White House

Jonathan Karl, Chief Washington Correspondent for ABC News joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss in Donald Trump’s authoritarian rhetoric and what could happen if the current Republican front-runner returns to the White House

 

“We are sleepwalking towards authoritarianism,” says scholar who studies democracy

The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky and Professor Brian Klaas discuss former President Trump’s recent remarks at a campaign stop where he pledges to root out ‘vermin’ if given a second term. Tomasky and Klaas discuss the historical parallels for Trump’s language.