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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat Will Happen When Trump Tries to Declare Martial Law?
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
(99,711 posts)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
(16,887 posts)But that is when the revolution will begin...
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)Do you remember what George Bush told Americans to do after 9-11?
unblock
(52,317 posts)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
(42,766 posts)Trump is a walking disaster. The Guard should be called out on him.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)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
(3,922 posts)The #IPOTUS's supporters will follow him to the grave, and we should help them along with that effort.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)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
(99,711 posts)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
(34,661 posts)Talk about people in powerful positions thinking they live in a episode of 24,what a clueless uncaring group of people.
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)I mean he thinks he can and he has little knowledge or respect for the law, but can he do that?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)It would up to congress and SCOTUS to check Trump if he tried. It's a murky area of law.
toddwv
(2,830 posts)TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)woodsprite
(11,924 posts)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
(32,076 posts)The body has ways of shutting that shit down.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)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
(10,133 posts)Til we find out "what the hell is going on"