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“The catastrophe Monday was that Trump...was preparing to mobilize the armed forces to suppress protests by US citizens against racial injustice & police brutality. For military officers who have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution, this was overload. The structure cracked.”
“Milley had been telling the president since late last wk that it would be a mistake to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 & call out active-duty troops. Yet Trump told governors Monday that he was putting Milley ‘in charge’ of a military response....Milley was vocal
“in reiterating his advice to the president against mobilizing troops, according to 3 knowledgeable sources...Mullen & Mattis knew that Milley had taken this precarious position when they spoke out publicly, in part to support his effort to resist calling up the military.”
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