Military Leaders Worry About a Trump Presidency
They’re up in arms. Military brass past and present predict mass resignations if Donald Trump is elected president. His outlandish statements — calling avoiding STDs in the 1980s “my personal Vietnam” and advocacy for torture, among other pronouncements — have the Pentagon and intelligence agencies on edge. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs has already said Trump’s ideas on torture and retaliation “aren’t legal.” And while an exodus of political appointees is, as a former Pentagon aide put it, “just politics,” when a top general resigns, “it’s a crisis."
Sources: Huffington Post
Fwd: The Presidential Daily Brief - 04/30/2016
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