What Will Happen When Trump Tries to Declare Martial Law?

[McCamy Taylor]

He has defied the Judicial Branch. He has fired the acting Attorney General---which is actually worse than Nixon's infamous Saturday Night Massacre (that was just a Special Prosecutor, not the Prosecutor for the whole country). He is rewriting legislation, which means he is trampling all over the legislative branch--although the Republican wimps in Congress are pretending not to notice (must be some pretty bad blackmail material that Putin has on them). He is threatening to stifle the press and impose a state religion. And his popularity is in the toilet, all in a brief 9 days. One in 100 American marched against him a week ago. At the rate he is going, soon one in two Americans will have protested him---the half that do not picket being too young or too old or too sick to take to the streets.

Where does this all end? Trump has backed himself into a corner and has only one play left. He can declare martial law. What will the military do when this happens? I am predicting that all those generals whose asses he has been kissing (see link)

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-generals-cabinet-232396


will give him a big "Hell, no!"

Note that I did not write "if". That is because he is obviously planning a military coup. Why else would he be making so cozy with the Pentagon while taking a big Trump Dump all over everyone else?

I suspect that Putin told him "Get the military in your pocket, then you can do anything you want." Putin does not know the U.S. and he does not know the U.S. military. We swear to defend the Constitution, not the person who happens to be acting as President.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. The markets will drop by 5,000 points and the elites will revolt.

Americans will disinvest, foreign investors will flee, and the dollar will be no longer be a safe currency, and will be worth less than the Botswana pula.

[Pachamama]

2. More than 5000 drop...try 10000...

But that is when the revolution will begin...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. They will close it way before that. There are multiple circuit breakers.

Do you remember what George Bush told Americans to do after 9-11?

[unblock]

3. nixon fired *two* attorneys general he did not directly fire the special prosecutor.

he didn't have the authority to fire the special prosecutor, only the attorney general could to that.

so tricky dick kept firing attorneys general until he found one willing to fire the special prosecutor.

so it was abuse of power *and* part of the ongoing cover-up & effort to disrupt the investigation.


as an isolated act, imho nixon's was far worse.

donnie's is worse only because it's part of a larger pattern to exert unprecedented authoritarian powers, in this case, through intimidation of subordinates and demanding loyalty over duty.

[lpbk2713]

4. State Dept employees are leaving en masse.

Trump is a walking disaster. The Guard should be called out on him.

[tazkcmo]

6. Nixon did fire the AG

Because he wouldn't fire the special prosecutor, then the next one and then Bjork was named AG and HE fired the special prosecutor.

On edit: Technically, the resigned rather than follow his orders.

[Loge23]

7. Probably civil war

The #IPOTUS's supporters will follow him to the grave, and we should help them along with that effort.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Clue to any Natiional Guard

being called up will come from all kinds of sources. This will happen in minutes of Dumb Donnie going their. And the focus will be in some Blue State City that has a Oath Keeper Police Chief or County Sheriff.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Most blue cities and counties have progressive police chiefs and sheriffs.

You might have tension between the Guard and the local police. Not only that, but the Guard, is made up of soldiers from the state they are from.

Civil War.

[Wellstone ruled]

14. Going to be interesting as we head towards Summer.

Talk about people in powerful positions thinking they live in a episode of 24,what a clueless uncaring group of people.

[Turbineguy]

10. Can he do that?

I mean he thinks he can and he has little knowledge or respect for the law, but can he do that?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. Lincoln declared martial law during the Civil War.

It would up to congress and SCOTUS to check Trump if he tried. It's a murky area of law.

[toddwv]

11. His brownshirts will think that a good idea.

[TrekLuver]

12. If he DARED institute martial law ...like where...everywhere?? THE COUNTRY WILL ERUPT.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. It would be the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning.

[woodsprite]

16. You have more faith in the Generals than I do.

I figure he will get rid of the ones that would have given him a "Hell, no" and replaced them with neo-Nazi types, like Bannon.

[elehhhhna]

17. We call OUR general, General Strike.

The body has ways of shutting that shit down.

[Hoyt]

18. Trump will propose some "tremedously awful" policies, but he won't declare Martial Law. I see no

I see no reason to sound like white wing GOPers during Obama's term.

Martial Law would plunge the world into depression. Unless you are currently living on a dirt farm with no running water, electricity, no milk cow or crops, etc., everyone would be worse off. Even "if" he did, I have faith it wouldn't be carried out.

[JDC]

19. Wait til he takes away their guns

Til we find out "what the hell is going on"