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A group of four-stars sent an op-ed letter to the New York Times Friday excoriating Trump for ‘dereliction of duty’ on January 6. Brief checking shows that some of the same names have showed up in the past, such as on the letter in which 200+ senior officers endorsed Biden over Trump in the 2020 campaign. One can only assume that all were retired by that point, lest they ran afoul of the Hatch Act.<\/p>\n
A group of seven retired four-star military officers, including admirals Steve Abbot, James Loy, John Nathman and William Owens and generals John Jumper, Peter Chiarelli and Johnnie Wilson, wrote that while the Jan. 6 committee has produced “startling findings,” the most alarming to them is that Trump “abdicated his duty to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution” while rioters attacked the US Capitol.<\/p>\n
“The president’s dereliction of duty on Jan. 6 tested the integrity of this historic principle as never before, endangering American lives and our democracy,” they wrote. “We hope that the country will never face such a crisis again. But to safeguard our constitutional order, military leaders must be ready for similar situations in which the chain of command appears unclear or the legality of orders uncertain.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Now, the really great quote of the day came from GEN Milley:<\/p>\n
…they needed to “kill the narrative” that Pence was in charge, not Trump. Milley said he interpreted that as “politics, politics, politics” and noted that he “doesn’t do political narratives.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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That may be the single funniest thing I have read all year. Milley doesn’t do political?\u00a0 Like the Rock doesn’t do weighlifting. (yes, I cleaned up my first 200 or so comparisons. My wife might read this.) Almost as funny as an attempted overthrow of the mightiest government on earth with no real weapons.<\/p>\n
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And on The Wrap,\u00a0 possibly the most honestly-named leftist group on the Web (why they shortened it from The Fish-Wrap is beyond me) their knickers are twisted that Trump suggested yesterday that he wanted to award himself a Medal of Honor but was advised it was “inappropriate.” Oh, the horror! The disrespect! How inappropriate!<\/p>\n
“As president, I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor, but they wouldn\u2019t let me do it\u2026they said that would be inappropriate,\u201d Trump said on July 23 at the Turning Point USA summit, whose \u201cmission is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Might have been nice if someone had done a little background checking and found that he has used this as a joke before. From July 2019:<\/p>\n
\nPresident Donald Trump claimed to laughter on Wednesday that he sought to give himself a Medal of Honor, but decided not to after being counseled against the move by aides.<\/p>\n
The offhand remark from the president came during his address to the 75th annual national convention of American Veterans, a volunteer-led veterans service organization also known as AMVETS.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n