Trump: Perhaps at Loggerheads with Military Brass?
While nobody knows precisely what the top people in the U.S. military are thinking and saying about Trump in their private conversations, anybody could guess the basic gist.
For a moment, let’s forgot all about the Ukraine, the nonstop torrent of lies, Mueller’s 10 points of obstruction of justice, the violations of the emoluments clause and campaign fiance laws associated with ripping off a charity to cover personal expenses–and concentrate only on the matter expressed to the left here.
Trump told his adoring crowd that he’s successfully taken on America’s highest ranking military leaders and the justice system they support, as they are part of clandestine and sinister forces within the U.S. intelligence apparatus, the “Deep State,” to block and undermine his every move and hound him out of office.
It’s truly unfathomable. Every day, I’m sure, there are screenplays far less incredible that this, rejected by the top minds in Hollywood on the basis that no sentient being could possibly believe that such a thing could possibly exist.
Craig,
The President is neither paranoid, nor without some evidence of a “conspiracy”.
A “deep state” conspiracy does exist, although not quite a Hollywood style conspiracy,a number of self-confessed “resistance” FBI, CIA, and government officials have come forward to boast of the existence of such a movement.
A struggle is taking place in US politics, and if you weren’t so biased and blinkered by your hatred of President Trump, you should be very alarmed and more thoughtful.
In time, when all the passion has cooled and the ranting is over, serious analysis will take place.
The struggle, of which President Trump is an unlikely central participant, is about who runs the nation, the elected representatives or unelected officials, apparatchiks and ‘Washington Insiders’!
President Truman had to fight against the hugely popular Gen.MacArthur.
Truman stated; “I fired him because he wouldn’t respect the authority of the President. I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that’s not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail”!
A Joint Senate Committee—chaired by Democrat Richard Russell Jr. investigated MacArthur’s removal. It concluded that “the removal of General MacArthur was within the constitutional powers of the President but the circumstances were a shock to national pride”.
The role of the CIA, FBI etc, wasn’t contemplated by the founding fathers, but the principle of all power being vested in an elected legislature and Executive was very carefully established in the US Constitution.
Semi-secret organizations like the FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies grew enormously in the 20th Century and now forms a sort of “State within a State”.
In combination with the usual career Washington Bureaucrats and heads of the military their power has grown far more rapidly than the fairly cumbersome and temporary nature of The Presidency and Congress.
Naturally, an ‘outsider” like the highly unconventional President Trump is a shock to the established order, who actually runs America.
Over the years, the “Washington elite” have grown used to dominating US policy and inventing US “protocols”. During the Clinton-Bush-Obama eras they set the agenda.
Then President Trump arrives and behaves like a throwback to Andrew Jackson.
He believes the elected President is in charge. He is answerable only to the Congress, the Supreme court and the American people.
In other word’s the institutions mentioned in the US Constitution. Against him is arraigned a powerful cabal of bureaucrats, military, media, agencies and Washington elite, who believe they, to the elected President should remain in charge.
President Trump is not “interfering” in the military justice system, the US Constitution makes him an integral part of the process.
The Constitution provides a safeguard for military personnel who find themselves victims of service politics or injustice, in the wide range of powers able to be exercised by the Commander-in-Chief on their behalf.
All the witnesses who have appeared at the impeachment inquiry, seemed to sincerely believe the President is not qualified to make foreign policy decisions.
A fact those Democrat legislators seemed to have missed is the President is the only one qualified!
One by one, each witness complained about being ignored or by-passed. A picture emerged of U.S. diplomats and intelligence officials who appear to believe they, rather than the U.S. president, have the ultimate authority to determine our foreign policy.
More disturbingly,if the President doesn’t go along the he must clearly be wrong a traitor ! At this point, these officials decided he’s to be obstructed, conspired against, frustrated, spied upon and taken down.
It must be galling for professionals to have to work for and accept orders from someone who they regard as a rank amateur, and interloper, but that’s their sworn duty to the Constitution.