Reported Trump national security adviser called for purging military to ensure Trumpist loyalty

[UCmeNdc]

Purging the military and intelligence community to be sure they’re 100 percent loyal to you personally is one of the steps on the road to dictatorship, no?


Meet Frank Gaffney, who is by multiple reports a national security adviser to Donald Trump’s transition team.


Gaffney was:

… a Pentagon official during the Reagan administration and a founder of the Center for Security Policy.

Mr. Gaffney has long advanced baseless conspiracy theories, including that President Obama might be a closet Muslim. The Southern Poverty Law Center described him as “one of America’s most notorious Islamophobes.”





Watch what happens.........

[geek tragedy]

1. easy for a guy at a think tank to say that, not so easy for an incompetent Trump team

to find enough bodies to fill those positions.

also, there are numerous legal and even constitutional protections for career civil servants. They can't be so easily rooted out.

[dhol82]

2. Thankfully, Gaffney is not part of the team

He was too crazy even for Trumpco

[HassleCat]

3. Not very smart, is he?

Since the FBI clearly worked to help Trump get elected. The military has been in the tank for the Republican Party for years, ever since this "Professional Soldier" thing replaced our citizen soldier armed forces.

[Doreen]

4. This is just more support for

my thought of future Fuhrer calling for martial law either on the day or day after inauguration. I am feeling less and less silly calling that possibility.

[pennylane100]

6. I think we will have a civil war if he tries to do that.

Already he has crowds demonstrating outside his residence. I think that his swearing in ceremony with be the scene of a massive crowd of protesters. I have a feeling it will not be a pretty sight.

[WhiteTara]

5. Heil Drumpf!

[UCmeNdc]

7. You better believe there are some people on Trump's team pushing this idea

Put the Generals in charge that support Trump. Do not promote Democratic Party leaning officers.

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. Ask Russia how that worked out with Stalin

[Wounded Bear]

9. Godwin's Law....this is basically what Hitler did...

he had all soldiers in the Wermacht (and presumably the members of the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe) swear an oath to the person of Adolf Hitler. In Europe that is a bit more of a thing than here, I think.

Not sure if verified, but stories were flying that it was a thing in the Bush admin too.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

10. They won't have to swear an oath to Trump

He's their commander-in-chief.

Let that process for a while.

[Wounded Bear]

11. And Richard Nixon was mine....

I understand the difference. Perhaps you do not? Military personnel are not bound to obey illegal or unconstitutional orders. It's a difficult thing to do and fight, but it is true. The Oath is to the Constitution.

[NastyRiffraff]

12. This goes along with what Trump hinted

a few months ago:

NEW YORK (AP) — Leveling unusually harsh criticism against the military, Republican Donald Trump said Wednesday night that America's generals have been "reduced to rubble" under President Barack Obama and suggested he would fire some of them if he wins the presidency in November.
More at AP

[workinclasszero]

13. Another area where Trump seems to be following Hitler's playbook?

Hitler forced the German military to pledge their allegiance to him personally.

Not the country or some constitution or set of laws but him personally.

[Initech]

14. Taking a page from Turkey's glorious dictator are we?