How General Mark Milley protected the Constitution from Donald Trump
This jewel of disinformation was run even as Joe Biden’s administration is prosecuting Biden’s last and presumably future opponent in the decidedly unconstitutional — make that anti-constitutional — style of a third-world banana republic. (READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Trump Is Right: Democrats Are Trashing Democracy)
Goldberg starts with an immediate, laughable historical untruth.
Saying that “Trump was exceptionally unfit to serve,” he quotes “retired three-star general James Dubik” as saying this vivid, and decidedly bold untruth:
For more than 200 years, the assumption in this country was that we would have a stable person as president.
Goldberg adds:
That this assumption did not hold true during the Trump administration presented a “unique challenge” for Milley, Dubik said.
This lack of historical knowledge of presidents by both Goldberg and a general — a general! — stuns.
Have they never read of the hot-tempered Andrew Jackson? The Jackson who never shied from a duel, once killing a man over the outcome of a horse race and an alleged slur against Jackson’s late wife? Or Abraham Lincoln and his on-going battle with depression? Or Theodore Roosevelt? In the latter’s case, on hearing of predecessor William McKinley’s death by assassin, McKinley’s friend Mark Hanna, simultaneously the senator from Ohio and chair of the Republican National Committee, exclaimed: “Now look! That damned cowboy is President of the United States!” Suffice to say, Roosevelt in his day was seen by contemporaries as nowhere near having the demeanor of a stable, secure leader. (READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Mark Levin Gets It: The Democrats Hate America)
Then there was my own boss, President Ronald Reagan. He was repeatedly assailed for not having a suitable presidential temperament, being too extreme to hold the presidency — and a dangerous warmonger to boot.
All three are today seen as great presidents.
The Goldberg piece is littered with wrathful, disdaining Trump Derangement Syndrome quotes from decided Swamp creatures whose real complaint is that Trump wouldn’t take their oh-so-sage Swampy advice. Utterly ignorant of those who insisted that Jackson, TR, and Reagan were dangerously unstable, they repeatedly charge the same to Trump and pretend that charge was unique to Trump.
With another term possible, Trump has already established himself as a great president.
Without a hesitation, it is these people cited by Goldberg who are the real threat to democracy. Right this minute the corrupt Biden Justice Department and a corrupt prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia, have weaponized the law, acting exactly like the leaders of third-world banana republics.
Then there is the outright lie that Trump “attempted to foment a coup in order to illegally remain in office.”
Hello? Asking supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” protest on Jan. 6 was not fomenting a coup.
In the days of the Vietnam War, when U.S. Democrat senators with names like Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern, and Robert F. Kennedy did the same — encouraging protests against the war? — they were not accused of fomenting a coup when anti-war protesters stormed the Pentagon and the streets of Chicago or planted a bomb in the Capitol and more. (READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Revolutionary Communists Lie and Burn at Jason Aldean Concert)
The notion that Milley was standing up for the Constitution is laughable. He was, in fact, acting as a real-life version of the famous fictional Gen. James Mattoon Scott, the coup-plotting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the best-selling novel of the early 1960s Seven Days in May. The movie version featured Burt Lancaster as the scheming, plotting coup-master who detests a fictional president — just as Milley detested a real president.
Goldberg cites Milley’s incredible anti-constitutional performance on the day Trump marched out of the White House to stand in front of the nearby St. John’s Episcopal Church, which had been targeted and damaged by violent George Floyd protesters. There was the president of the United States literally standing up for the constitutionally protected right to freedom of religion — and Milley’s response was to say to his security chief, “We’re getting the f*** out of here.”
So much for standing up for the constitutional right to freedom of religion and opposition to burning a church. Worse, Milley would later apologize “to the armed forces and the country” because his presence “created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”
Hello? The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff refuses to stand up for the Constitution? And that’s a good thing? It is, in fact, singularly dangerous. Not to mention that it was Milley himself who was playing politics.
Goldberg goes on to cite those Trump appointees who were appalled at Trump going to the United Nations and calling out North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as “Little Rocket Man,” borrowing the title of an Elton John song.
What Trump did in that UN speech was exactly what Ronald Reagan did when he gave a speech and borrowed a term from the hit film franchise Star Wars, calling out the Communist Soviet empire as an “Evil Empire.” Not to mention that it was the same as Reagan boldly saying this, at his first presidential press conference, on how he would deal with the Communists:
I don’t have to think of an answer as to what I think their intentions are; they have repeated it. I know of no leader of the Soviet Union since the revolution, and including the present leadership, that has not more than once repeated in the various Communist congresses they hold their determination that their goal must be the promotion of world revolution and a one-world Socialist or Communist state, whichever word you want to use.
Now, as long as they do that and as long as they, at the same time, have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is what will further their cause, meaning they reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat, in order to attain that, and that is moral, not immoral, and we operate on a different set of standards, I think when you do business with them, even at a detente, you keep that in mind.
In the day, the same kind of people who were afraid of Reagan’s forthrightness are today afraid of Trump.
Again, without a hint of irony, Goldberg says that Trump “would continually try to politicize an apolitical institution.” What a joke. As someone who spent a career in Washington working for a congressman, senator, president, and Cabinet secretary, I find it utterly laughable to suggest that there is an “apolitical institution” anywhere in Washington. Staffers and career bureaucrats, not to mention journalists, are as political as political can be. Not that it needs recalling, but the nomination of Supreme Court justices, once in the very long ago sober, bipartisan affairs, have now become nothing if not televised political sideshows.
If nothing else, Goldberg’s piece speaks to the utter contempt many in Washington have not just for the Constitution but for any “Outsider” who has not spent a career in politics.
And at base, what this article and its tale of the utterly political Milley vividly illustrates is how the Swamp and its dwellers hang together, contemptuous of the Constitution, Outsiders — and the American people themselves.
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