Trump goes bananas over Dem message to military re: illegal orders

nycfan said:
First, here is the background:

Democratic lawmakers urge troops to disobey illegal orders​



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In the video, the lawmakers don’t specify which orders service members have received, or might receive, that could be illegal.

Service members are required to follow only lawful orders in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Following an order that might violate the law could open service members up to prosecution, as legal precedent holds that receiving an order alone isn’t a defense, colloquially known as the “Nuremberg defense” as it was deployed by senior members of Adolph Hitler’s leadership team during legal proceedings after World War II.

The video comes as US military officials, including the commander of US Southern Command, and US allies, including the UK, have questioned the legality of a series of military strikes targeting suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.…”
 
nycfan said:
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In the video, the lawmakers don’t specify which orders service members have received, or might receive, that could be illegal.

Service members are required to follow only lawful orders in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Following an order that might violate the law could open service members up to prosecution, as legal precedent holds that receiving an order alone isn’t a defense, colloquially known as the “Nuremberg defense” as it was deployed by senior members of Adolph Hitler’s leadership team during legal proceedings after World War II.

The video comes as US military officials, including the commander of US Southern Command, and US allies, including the UK, have questioned the legality of a series of military strikes targeting suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.…”
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“… But lawmakers who have been briefed by the Pentagon about the operation have said that military officials have acknowledged not knowing the individual identities of those they are targeting before killing them. Instead, the officials said they need only establish that those on board the vessels are affiliated with cartels. Lawyers inside the Pentagon have raised legal concerns about the US military strikes, CNN has reported.

Military lawyers have been conspicuously absent from recent congressional briefings on the operation, lawmakers have said. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fired the top uniformed lawyers for the Army and Air Force earlier this year, telling reporters afterwards that he viewed them as potential “roadblocks to orders that are given by a commander in chief.”


To date, key lawmakers have also not received a single briefing from members of the intelligence community on its role in the boat strikes —despite submitting multiple requests for information and the Trump administration publicly citing intelligence that those killed were known drug traffickers, according to a source familiar with the matter.…”
 
nycfan said:
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It really is so frustrating that Trump and his allies have so broken the state of the discourse that the sitting president openly calling for the execution of his political opponents is not going to get much more than a shrug. Like the President of the USA says "execute members of Congress for being traitors" and we're all just like "that's just Donald being Donald." The stuff Jay Jones said was rough, but at least that was in a private text message. And stuff like this from Trump is probably why Pubs didn't have much success getting Virginians to care about Jones's texts.
 
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