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Team Trump Mulling Deploying Military to Streets on Day 1 if Elected: Report (www.thedailybeast.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Already looking ahead to the turmoil his re-election could cause, Donald Trump and his allies are reportedly circling an idea to invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, deploying the military to act as domestic law enforcement.

According to a Washington Post report on Sunday, the drafting of such plans has largely been “unofficially outsourced” thus far to a coalition of right-wing think tanks working under the title “Project 2025.” It was identified as an immediate priority for the hypothetical resurrected Trump administration, internal communications obtained by the newspaper showed.

In response to questions from the Post, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung provided a statement: “President Trump is focused on crushing his opponents in the primary election and then going on to beat Crooked Joe Biden,” he said. “President Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution.”

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (20 children)

They would have to do something about Posse Comitatus first.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/posse-comitatus-revisited-use-military-civil-law-enforcement

"The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which removed the military from regular civil law enforcement, was enacted in response to the abuses resulting from the extensive use of the army in civil law enforcement during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. The Act allows legislated exceptions."

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That "something" might just turn out to be as simple as "ignore it".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I mean, I guess, they could try... but then they would be delivering unlawful orders to the military. That likely won't go the way they think it will go.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The military has been deployed against the civilian populace before, re the Ohio State massacre. This would be on a whole other level, but there is precedent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That was the National Guard, not the Army proper. A little different. Granted, not if you're on the other side of the rifles it's not.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

True enough, but if we're being a bit pedantic anyway you actually said military, not army. The national guard are absolutely military. They even occasionally get deployed overseas.

Edit: also my bad referring to it as "Ohio State". It was Kent State University which is in Ohio

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It's cool, I knew what you meant! :)

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