Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows

https://newrepublic.com/article/198708/trump-military-anti-immigration-dhs-leaked-memo

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  1. So basically they can put us in jail without due process or just shoot us.

  2. Did anyone bother to read Project 2025 or… nah?

    Because it gets extremely little coverage on television media, or media in general. There’s every reason to believe that the actions that are being taken now, many are tied directly to Project 2025. And those actions have serious consequences for society, democracy and constitutional law. And everyone acts surprised when one of those developments happen.

    Media needs to be covering this like a coup. It has a plan. It has intent. It has phases. It has direction. It has goals. And it’s all been published and it’s happening.

    Media should be calling out what’s been done, how it impacts the rule of law, and what the future consequences of all of these actions are.

  3. And where are the “protect our freedoms” gun nuts in this, eh?

  4. The Heritage Foundation is a terrorist organization and should be treated as such.

  7. I understand how people can be shocked by this. You can’t create Nazi-America yet still function like Legacy-America with its democracy and shit.

    Don’t like it? Then do something about it.

  8. “And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” – The Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts

  9. How many people will die needlessly so this child rapists can distract us from his perversion.

  10. My relationship with the US will never recover from this ordeal. Short of a massive undeniable rejection of everything to do with this regime in 2026, so large that he can be impeached, removed from office and tried for treason. As that won’t happen I have no hope for this country. Even if things eventually go back to normal, I can’t connect with the half of this country that either wanted this or was too clueless or unintelligent to vote for it.

    Not even a liberal, though anyone who disagrees with him is branded such. I voted for him in 2016 even. Have voted republican plenty of times, but how anyone can watch what’s happening and not be alarmed is just disgusting

  12. This was literally always part of the plan, using the military to help create an oligarchic fascist state. Project 2025 who is the most recent iteration. People like the Koch Brothers have been planning this shit for decades.

  13. That’s because it’s a fascist shithole, and being born right now guarantees growing up through some serious garbage. I feel sorry for kids.

  14. The right also spent the last few years attacking mass media and calling it fake news.

    They targeted a lot of their base where they already were: Facebook and Twitter.

    Over and over they pumped out the same hate and fear and “blame the woke left” agenda, coupled with fear mongering (immigrants are taking our jobs, vaccines are bad, COVID wasn’t real, etc) which slowly eroded their trust in media.

    So, no, many didn’t read Project 2025. By the time this was a thing the right had already eroded their trust and fed them a bunch of false narrative that the left lies, along with mainstream media.

    If you watch some interviews with trump supporters it’s quite clear there is a lack of critical thinking skills and an inability to do research for a range of opinions.

    I watched someone close to me fall down this rabbit hole during COVID. It was fascinating and terrifying all at the same time.

  15. Oh. No shit?

    Signed,

    Someone who lives in Los Angeles

  17. He’s gonna keep doing even more insane shit to distract from the Epstein files….

  18. I keep waiting for a MSM reporter like Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes to link EVERYTHING they report on to the chapter and verse from Project 2025. This is a well thought out coup. Trump just looks for justification to execute parts of the plan and is the mouthpiece to get support from MAGA.

  20. Leaked info involving a Hegseth family member? No way…..

  22. We’re already under martial law in some places and they want it National

  23. Leaked memo? It’s literally spelled out in the p2025 document.

  24. >All this comes as ICE is about to receive well over $100 billion in new funds. The memo raises the question of what that use of military personnel detailed “within ICE and CBP” will look like with all that money.

    >In a sense, the administration seems to be supercharging immigration “invasion” agitprop to manufacture a sense of national trauma similar to the one that arose after the September 11 attacks. That led to another type of war-on-terror hyper-militarization at home (as well as abroad). The administration seems determined to outdo that—this time against the new internal enemy.

  25. There are only two regimes, democracy and tyranny. Here are the methods of reducing democracy to tyranny. They are all against the Constitution.

    Control of public information and opinion – It begins with withholding information, and leads to putting out false or misleading information. A government can develop ministries of propaganda under many guises. They typically call it “public information” or “marketing”.

    Vote fraud used to prevent the election of reformers – It doesn’t matter which of the two major party candidates are elected if no real reformer can get nominated, and when news services start knowing the outcomes of elections before it is possible for them to know, then the votes are not being honestly counted.

    Undue official influence on trials and juries – Nonrandom selection of jury panels, exclusion of those opposed to the law, exclusion of the jury from hearing argument on the law, exclusion of private prosecutors from access to the grand jury, and prevention of parties and their counsels from making effective arguments or challenging the government.

    Usurpation of undelegated powers – This is usually done with popular support for solving some problem, or to redistribute wealth to the advantage of the supporters of the dominant faction, but it soon leads to the deprivation of rights of minorities and individuals.

    Seeking a government monopoly on the capability and use of armed force – The first signs are efforts to register or restrict the possession and use of firearms, initially under the guise of “protecting” the public, which, when it actually results in increased crime, provides a basis for further disarmament efforts affecting more people and more weapons.

    Militarization of law enforcement – Declaring a “war on crime” that becomes a war on civil liberties. Preparation of military forces for internal policing duties.

    Infiltration and subversion of citizen groups that could be forces for reform – Internal spying and surveillance is the beginning. A sign is false prosecutions of their leaders.

    Suppression of investigators and whistleblowers – When people who try to uncover high level wrongdoing are threatened, that is a sign the system is not only riddled with corruption, but that the corruption has passed the threshold into active tyranny.

    Use of the law for competition suppression – It begins with the dominant faction winning support by paying off their supporters and suppressing their supporters’ competitors, but leads to public officials themselves engaging in illegal activities and using the law to suppress independent competitors.

    Subversion of internal checks and balances – This involves the appointment to key positions of persons who can be controlled by their sponsors, and who are then induced to do illegal things. The worst way in which this occurs is in the appointment of judges that will go along with unconstitutional acts by the other branches.

    Creation of a class of officials who are above the law – This is indicated by dismissal of charges for wrongdoing against persons who are “following orders”.

    Increasing dependency of the people on government – The classic approach to domination of the people is to first take everything they have away from them, then make them compliant with the demands of the rulers to get anything back again.

    Increasing public ignorance of their civic duties and reluctance to perform them – When the people avoid doing things like voting and serving in militias and juries, tyranny is not far behind.

    Use of staged events to produce popular support – Acts of terrorism, blamed on political opponents, followed immediately with well-prepared proposals for increased powers and budgets for suppressive agencies. Sometimes called a Reichstag plot.

    Conversion of rights into privileges – Requiring licenses and permits for doing things that the government does not have the delegated power to restrict, except by due process in which the burden of proof is on the petitioner.

    Political correctness – Many if not most people are susceptible to being recruited to engage in repressive actions against disfavored views or behaviors, and led to pave the way for the dominance of tyrannical government.

    Avoiding tyranny – The key is always to detect tendencies toward tyranny and suppress them before they go too far or become too firmly established. **The people must never acquiesce in any violation of the Constitution**. Failure to take corrective action early will only mean that more severe measures will have to be taken later, perhaps with the loss of life and the disruption of the society in ways from which recovery may take centuries.

    /s.

  26. “Normalizing routine military support to law enforcement could create a kind of domestic ‘Forever War,’ but one that is uniquely dangerous,” the Brennan Center’s Nunn told me. “As the Founders well understood, a military that is turned inward is a threat to both democracy and individual liberty.”

    >The memo was authored by Philip Hegseth—the younger brother of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—who is a senior adviser to Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem and DHS liaison officer to the Defense Department.

    Can’t wait to see how “qualified” this younger Hegseth is for the role:

    >Based on Phil Hegseth’s publicly available resume, his past experience includes founding his own podcast production company, Embassy and Third, and working on social media and podcasts at The Hudson Institute.

    [https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-brother-signal-dhs-hired-68678a8a653c79a4c6ae31a8bee64836](https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-brother-signal-dhs-hired-68678a8a653c79a4c6ae31a8bee64836)

  27. This right here would be the most significant thing to happen in trumps presidency yet. This would be basically our last chance to fight for our rights and freedom. Based on the response orange boy and the armed forces get they will know how far we can be pushed. Americans would need to do absolutely whatever needs to be done to combat and stop this. And yes, I mean the absolutely whatever needs to be done that you think I mean.

    I am extremely studied in WW2 and Hitlers and the nazis path to absolute power over Germany. The transition from their paramilitary force the brownshirts to the SS was the start of when hitler got REALLY bold; doing whatever he wanted to Germans, as well as too his international neighbors. 

    Appeasement and negotiations do not work when people/groups like trump and maga have the fervor that they do. Id bet you everything is got that hardline MAGAts view the political fight as an existential crisis. Germany did nothing but expand when Europe defended and retreated. Germany only lost ground when the allies stopped defending and started seeking out the fight.

  28. This gross escalation isn’t about enforcing immigration laws, obviously. trump is creating widespread civil unrest, and when the protesters come out he’s going to disappear them en masse, and likely charge them with terrorism. Martial law is only a matter of time.

    Any members of the military who go along with this are traitors, and are in violation of their oaths.

    This deployment of Pentagon resources to invade cities is in addition to the $170 billion for ICE. This is the scale of an invading army. War, not law enforcement. trump is going to war against the country.

  29. At what point does it become a break glass point? Because they will keep doing worse and worse stuff, till we stand up.

  31. In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?

    “The king, the priest, the rich man — who lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? It’s a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers. All depends on the man with the sword.

    “And yet he is no one,” Varys said. “He has neither crown nor gold nor favor of the gods, only a piece of pointed steel.”

    “That piece of steel is the power of life and death.”

    “Just so … yet if it is the swordsmen who rule us in truth, why do we pretend our kings hold the power? Why should a strong man with a sword ever obey a child king like Joffrey, or a wine-sodden oaf like his father?”

    “Because these child kings and drunken oafs can call other strong men, with other swords.”

    “Then these other swordsmen have the true power. Or do they? Whence came their swords? Why do they obey?” Varys smiled.

  32. > “Due to the sensitive nature of the meeting, minimal written policy or background information can be provided in this briefing memo,” the memo says.

    They know it’s illegal and don’t give a fuck

  33. What happened to America, home of the brave? Where are you lot protesting against this turds dismantling of your so sacred constitution? All the bravado, just propaganda and hype. 

    Be more like the French! 

  35. Most of the comments here are taking this as “the military WILL be in the streets.” My takeaway from this article is that the administration has an uphill battle getting the military to do anything of the sort.

    > The U.S. military leadership (the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and NORTHCOM) need to feel – for the first time – the urgency of the homeland defense mission. They need to understand the threat, what’s at stake, and the political importance the administration has placed on this issue.

    If you were a lifelong military leader who has risen to be a member of the Joint Chiefs, would you let a drunken Fox News host, Failed-Governor Barbie, and a child rapist with dementia convince you to give up your oaths, attack civilians, and break with centuries of law? For what? Because a couple of guys looking for work at Home Depot make Karen and Bubba feel scared (until they need someone to fix their roof for cheap)?

  36. If rules are arbitrary then the weight of them disappears.

    If I could get arrested whether I’m breaking or following the law…. then there’s no longer rational basis for following the law.

  37. He keeps egging on an excuse to put troops on the ground. He’s getting fed up and is just going to do it anyway like a petulant child. I’d say I’m shocked he waited this long, but lest we forget he already did it in California.

  38. The telescoping of this fascist change for America is so long and clear. They’re talking to the frogs about the temperature increases. :/

  40. “Due to the sensitive nature of the meeting, minimal written policy or background information can be provided in this briefing memo,” the memo says.

    Yeah, they’re planning some dark shit. If you have to hide your plans you know it’s wrong and going to be met with blowback.

    This approach also leads to violent excess. You get a bunch of psychos on the ground level, give them vague directions and watch them do the dirty work while you have plausible deniability.

  44. and on the other all those pedo elites are free and living awesomely and living it up with Trump. MAGA you voted for this.

  45. If this all pans out for the better, can we actually punish these traitors properly instead of a slap on the wrist like with the Confederacy?

  46. Sounds like it’s time for soldiers to stand up for their oath.

  47. Duh.

    Like, seriously, if this is a surprise to you, you shouldn’t be allowed to be involved in politics anymore in any capacity, including voting.

    Trump supporters all know this and are excited for this.

    People who oppose Trump all know this cause he said he would do it.

    Anyone who doesn’t know this doesn’t deserve to be involved in the political process ever again.

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