Ret. Gen. John Allen Says Donald Trump Could Cause 'Civil Military Crisis'

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Source: ABC News

Retired Marine Corps Gen. John Allen said that if Republican nominee Donald Trump becomes president and follows through on some of the things he’s said on the campaign trail, the U.S. could face a “civil military crisis, the like of which we’ve not seen in this country.”

"When we swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution, which is a document and a set of principles and it supports the rule of law, one of those is to ensure that we do not obey illegal orders," Allen told told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on This Week.

In the past, Trump has supported the use of waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques, and has said the military should kill the families of alleged terrorists.

"He's talked about needing to torture. He's talked about needing to murder the families of alleged terrorists," Allen said. "He's talked about carpet-bombing ISIL. Who do you think is going to carpet-bombed when all that occurs? It's going to be innocent families."

Were Trump to order such things, Allen said, he would be ordering illegal actions. "What we need to do is ensure that we don't create an environment that puts us on a track conceivably where the United States military finds itself in a civil military crisis with a commander in chief who would have us do illegal things,” Allen said.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ret-gen-john-allen-donald-trump-credibility/story?id=41021091

[roamer65]

1. In other words, ripe for a military coup d'etat.

Drumpf will lead this country to a very dark place.

[turbinetree]

2. Very very dark and dangerous place

Honk---------------for a political revolution

[Ellen Forradalom]

10. Not the kind I had in mind

[Zambero]

6. Congress would impeach and remove him before that would occur

Rapid pace. It would be a rare bipartisan effort.

[TeamPooka]

9. A GOP House of Representatives will never impeach a GOP President, even Trump

These fuckers have endorsed him.
They're done. They go to Hell with him now.
They won't back down now.

[Zambero]

16. Yes they would, putting one of their own in the White House

Pence. The GOP leadership and the Kochs would throw a party to celebrate the event. Then their long national nightmare would be over, to borrow a phrase from Nixon's successor.

[63splitwindow]

3. Hopefully some undecideds will care about any of these critically important matters...

that continue to mount up. Don the Con's followers do not give a shit about ANY of this. All they know is that Don the Con is not supported by people who support, or at least don't hate with every fiber of their being, President Obama and/or Hillary Clinton. These are the same people, including a lot of self-described fundamentalist "Christians", who hate a former President of REAL character, Jimmy Carter. They are just a bunch of sorry assed, fucked up miscreants. To spite those they despise they would obviously be willing to sacrifice any semblance of decency, all the while whining the same old tired refrain that liberal policies have weakened the fabric of American society.

[SheriffBob]

13. Some

of those RW fundamentalist Christians are no different than ISIS. That includes baby born again Trump.

He is like the ayatollah to them.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

4. A good chunk of the military folks I know support Trump.

I don't know what it is.

[63splitwindow]

5. They are fucking idiots, obviously, who have slurped up all the RW lies for decades. nt

[geek tragedy]

11. Authoritarian and generally not the most educated folks nt

[mopinko]

17. authoritarian followers

are attracted to military careers.

[LS_Editor]

7. There will be one Constitutional crisis after another.

[Little Tich]

8. One more reason for not wanting a crazy person as president. n/t

[Cha]

12. Thank you, Gen Allen!

[Sunlei]

14. years of "free to our troops" RW hate radio, guaranteed a captive audience.

[Vinca]

15. This is the only time I've been able to imagine a military coup in the U.S.

Trump CANNOT be elected.