Sorry, We Can Only View This Secret Pentagon Meeting As A Plot To Foment An Insurrection

Posted • November 9, 2024: John Frankenheimer directed a movie called Seven Days in May in the 1960s, starring Kirk Douglas as a military officer who uncovers a coup against the president of the United States by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who signed a deeply unpopular nuclear disarmament treaty. That’s a movie. In 2024, the Pentagon brass plotted to countermand President-elect Donald J. Trump’s orders. If we’re going by the Left’s rules here, this is an insurrection. It’s a military coup. What’s worse is that these anti-Trump meetings were held in secret and then got leaked to the media. “Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers, defense officials told CNN.”

“Trump has suggested he would be open to using active-duty forces for domestic law enforcement and mass deportations and has indicated he wants to stack the federal government with loyalists and “clean out corrupt actors” in the US national security establishment. […] “We are all preparing and planning for the worst-case scenario, but the reality is that we don’t know how this is going to play out yet,” one defense official said. Trump’s election has also raised questions inside the Pentagon about what would happen if the president issued an unlawful order, particularly if his political appointees inside the department don’t push back. “Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders,” said another defense official. “But the question is what happens then – do we see resignations from senior military leaders? Or would they view that as abandoning their people?”

CNN’s Scott Jennings tore apart these unelected bureaucrats yesterday. We’re back to the same Deep State games, but this time, Trump, with no re-election ahead of him, can go hard and fast to rid the Pentagon and any agency of troublesome government workers who think they’re above the law and not accountable to the will of the people. The illegal orders narrative is also ridiculous, soaked in the anti-Trump hysterics that have engulfed the Left. Pentagon officials are already discussing how they can countermand an order from President Donald Trump if they disagree with it. Scott Jennings absolutely ripped them to pieces. "[They're] already having discussions to countermand the commander-in-chief! [...] I don't like the idea of non-elected government people, at any level, having meetings with each other about how to thwart the duly-elected president of the United States!" - "What is Donald Trump supposed to think now? You already got the government plotting against you!"

"The unelected bureaucracy of this government answers to the civilian and duly elected leadership." Scott Jennings excoriates Pentagon officials over reports of secret meetings about how to “thwart or countermand the Commander-In-Chief." The plotting against Trump has seemingly begun: "I don't like this because what's Donald Trump supposed to think? You know, he's sitting down there, he's the president elect. And now he's got to read in the newspaper tonight that the unelected bureaucracy of the federal government is having meetings at some level about how to thwart or countermand the Commander in Chief. I don't care if it's at the Pentagon or at the HUD or Ag department." - "It doesn't matter. The unelected bureaucracy of this government answers to the civilian and duly elected leadership.. If you were in his shoes and you just won the popular vote with a clear mandate and and now you get to read that these unelected bureaucrats are plotting against you? What would you think?"

Secret meetings on thwarting a duly elected president are not a good look.

Townhall: Sorry, We Can Only View This Secret Pentagon Meeting as a Plot to Foment an Insurrection
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/11/09/pentagon-brass-held-secret-meetings-about-how-to-countermand-trumps-orders-n2647534
CNN: Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/politics/pentagon-officials-discussing-trump/index.html