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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump ordered naval personnel to call congress and lobby for taking 22 million people
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/22/trump-denounces-illegal-leaks-in-new-accounts-of-his-campaigns-contact-with-russia/?utm_term=.1e464e50bdfc
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Shortly after his tweet storm, which started just after 6:30 a.m. and lasted nearly two hours, Trump flew to Norfolk, where he injected a small dose of partisan politics into the ceremonial commissioning of a new naval warship.
Speaking aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford, Trump extolled the virtues of the wonderful, beautiful but very, very powerful nuclear-powered warship We will win, win, win, he said, we will never lose but also decried the budget compromise known as sequestration, which requires mandatory and corresponding military and domestic cuts.
Trump promised to try to restore higher levels of military funding but also urged the crowd of about 6,500 many in uniform to help him push this years budget, in which he said he will seek an additional $54 billion in defense spending, through Congress.
I dont mind getting a little hand, so call that congressman and call that senator and make sure you get it, he said, to applause. And by the way, you can also call those senators to make sure you get health care.
But Trumps brief appeal created a potentially awkward tableau at a commissioning event intended to be ceremonial a commander in chief offering political remarks, and what could even be construed as an order, to the naval officers he commands.
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Trump ordered naval personnel to call congress and lobby for taking 22 million people (Original Post)
deminks
Jul 2017
OP
That idiot doesn't know that. The damn draft dodger knows less about the military
Elwood P Dowd
Jul 2017
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Demonaut
(8,926 posts)1. his idiocy and ignorance never fails to reach to new depths
the infinite bottom is the limit
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)2. Illegal, correct?
Superiors can't order political conduct
unblock
(52,317 posts)3. This from someone who just looked into the pardon power
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)5. Illegal because military cannot be politically active except to vote.
No working for one candidate or cause, have to be neutral.
trump just gave illegal orders, and the military knows it.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)4. Uh, don't they already have healthcare?
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)6. That idiot doesn't know that. The damn draft dodger knows less about the military
than he knows about health care.
haele
(12,676 posts)7. Guess that means Tricare is on the chopping block along with Medicare.
And the VA system, also.
If anyone thinks the GOP wants to allow any government-provided health care to anyone but the political elite, they're naive fools.
Haele