WASHINGTON: Ten former US secretaries of defense. administrations More than 30 years old issued an extraordinary appeal on Sunday to prevent the possibility of military support Trump coup, warning US defense forces staying out of politics even when the defeated president is making a desperate effort to stay in office by agitating his extremist supporters.
“Efforts to involve the US military in resolving electoral disputes would lead us into dangerous, illegal, and unconstitutional territory. Civilian and military officials directing or carrying out such measures would be held accountable, even if possible criminal sanctions, for the serious consequences of their actions in our republic, “said the defense secretaries in a speech amid growing tensions in Washington DC, where a joint session of Congress is to convene on Wednesday to formally recognize Joe biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
Echoing Trump’s falsehoods and false claims that his campaign was unable to prove in court, some of his supporters urge Vice President Mike Pence to go beyond his ceremonial duties and ignore the states’ verdict and take action to give the defeated president a second term. .
Separately, Triumph has also placed loyalists in the Pentagon amid reports that they have been reluctant to cooperate in the transition process. The secretaries warned against any disruption in the process, warning that it could make the nation vulnerable to the actions of adversaries seeking to take advantage of the situation.
Constituting an unprecedented blow of a possible Trump coup, outspoken signatories included Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry, and Donald Rumsfeld, ten former US defense secretaries who served in the Trump, Obama, Bush, and Clinton administrations.
Several former and current lawmakers, including moderate Republican senators, have admonished Republican Party extremists who have learned of Trump’s false claims of an election victory.
“The 2020 elections are over. All challenges through storytelling and appeals have been exhausted. At this point, further attempts to question the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election are contrary to the clearly expressed will of the American people and they only serve to undermine the confidence of Americans in the election results already determined, “a bipartisan group of 10 senators, including four Republicans, said in a statement.
Former House President Paul Ryan, a Republican, joined them in warning that “it is difficult to conceive of an act more undemocratic and anti-conservative than a federal intervention to nullify the results of state-certified elections and disenfranchise millions of people. Americans “.
The effort by Trump and his fundamentalist mob to steal the election has divided the party, even those who previously supported him called him “commander in thief” and gangster.
“There has been absolutely gruesome corruption surrounding the 2020 American election. In fact, it is so bad that the perpetrator may now face serious criminal charges. There is only one problem for the man in the White House who has been screaming about corruption. : The perpetrator of is … President Donald J. Trump, “commentator Piers Morgan wrote on Monday.
Morgan, a fervent Trump supporter, said that Trump’s phone call to two Republican officials in Georgia was “a blatant attempt by the current president of the United States to get two elected officials to commit deliberate fraud against the American people. So Trump is breaking the law. ” , in the most blatant way imaginable. ”
Various political and legal luminaries are now calling for the outgoing president to be brought to justice amid persistent speculation that he will pardon himself before resigning.
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