‘It’s ILLEGAL’: Ret. General says military doesn’t take up arms against civilians

The word I kept hearing from them was embarrassment. Because if you look at that picture and you listen or have viewed what happened yesterday uh at in Quantico, you saw myriad numbers of silver star awards. Uh you saw myriad uh purple hearts, bronze stars, combat infantry badges, and they were being lectured on how to do push-ups and uh lose weight and shave. Uh and it was truly mortifying. But the larger question is going forward, what happens to a uh the military with this internal dissension that you can seemingly feel when you when you witness an event like yesterday. When you look at those faces, it’s what I predicted when I was on the show the other day and that you’re going to get poker faces and a stoicism that was reflective of professionalism. But truthfully, those those individuals will leave that room or left that room yesterday and they’ll start discussing and analyzing how they can implement some of the lawful orders that they got. Uh, you know, okay, great. We can buck up the standards. We can take a look at the kinds of things uh to get some soldiers, not all certainly, not even the majority back in in better shape. Take a look at what our ranks look like. Uh but there were also uh soldiers and and well all ranks of services in that audience that said wait a minute when they wrote we’re writing down the same kind of checklist that I was writing down saying wait a minute we can’t do that or we shouldn’t do that or this is a true violation of what we are as professionals or hey I’ve got women in my ranks who are performing admirably. Why should I kind of lump them all together like the secretary did? Or I’m certainly now going to debate with myself. What am I gonna say if I’m asked to go on the street and conduct illegal actions? And I guarantee you that the people in that audience will not execute illegal orders. We’ve been saying that for a long time. This was a disciplinary approach in public with cameras so the whole nation could see and it was an attempt at at separating the military institution from the people that they defend.

During a Tuesday meeting of hundreds of senior military officers, the president said the military should use ‘dangerous’ U.S. cities as ‘training grounds’. Retired Gen. Mark Hertling reacted to the president’s remarks on Morning Joe: “I guarantee you that the people in that audience will not execute illegal orders.”For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of our day click here: https://www.msnbc.com/

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25 comments

  3. Why aren’t they talking about how to get that regime out !!!! Why would they care about anything else right now!!!!!

  4. When there is dissention in the military you get rid of the dissention. Easy peasy. They don't want to be there? They don't have to be there.

  5. We can only hope they stick together and act as one. They can’t fire all of them. Division is what they are good at.

  8. ربي اجعل تدبيرهم في تدميرهم واجعل ربي كيدهم في نحورهم واقينا يا الله شرهم

  11. He is trying to be like Putin. Gain control of the military and you gain control of the country. Putin is behind all this, Trump owes him.

  13. I trust that the military of the United States will do the right thing, these are good men and women Amen. What Trump said to them that day was a disgrace to the military😮

  17. Both of you men are weak minded pacifist idiots, everything Pete said yesterday is a fact, the military standards have fallen along with the "woke" guidelines/policies that have severely weakened the US military, what his meaning was behind using the military "against civilians" is in case of insurrection/lawless behavior, I'm a retired Military Police and I took an oath to defend this country against all enemies both foreign AND domestic

  18. Want to listen to ACTIVE military rejecting this BS! Why do they support unconstitutional acts?

  21. So, if y'all don't count the Jan 6 insurrection being carried out by domestic enemies and you're not counting the Russian agents running our government now as domestic enemies, who else could possibly be considered a domestic enemy? Are those words included in the military and congressional oaths just to sound tough? Because from here, they seem pretty meaningless.

  22. I found out that Donald never graduated, he necer got a Bachelor, never got an associate degree and those are Honor Degrees, Donald spent one year at UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA WHARTON SCHOOL And dropped out. Donald Trump was never on the Dean's list and he wasn't on the List of Students to do COMMERCEMENT. DONALD CHANGED HIS BIRTH YEAR TO BE 79 YRS. WHEN HIS ACTUAL BIRTH YEAR IS 1945. SO TGAT WOULD MAKE DONALD THE SAME AGE AS JOE BIDEN.

  23. It eases my mind to hear this. I just hope that because military brass all feel the same way. Regardless, if the problem is not resolved quickly and efficiently, we’ve got even rougher seas ahead.

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