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RandySF

(57,636 posts)
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 11:02 AM Jun 2020

Troops Await Orders Just Outside Washington, D.C.

“Approximately 1,600 active duty U.S. Army troops waited Wednesday just outside Washington, D.C., for a possible deployment into the streets of the nation’s capital as the Trump administration continued to weigh whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The troops, from Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Drum, N.Y., arrived Monday as Pentagon officials prepared to implement a possible deployment order by President Trump. A decision to send the federal troops onto streets in Washington, and potentially in other cities, would represent the first domestic deployment of active-duty personnel in nearly 30 years.”

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said earlier that he doesn’t support the invocation of the act.




https://politicalwire.com/2020/06/03/troops-await-orders-just-outside-washington-d-c/

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Troops Await Orders Just Outside Washington, D.C. (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2020 OP
trump continues to do the worst possible thing questionseverything Jun 2020 #1
Nobody in the WH or senate GOP will stand up to him, this is how it all ends, my friend Eliot Rosewater Jun 2020 #2
Do you have a corroborating source other than that clickbait site? MineralMan Jun 2020 #3
I remember this from a couple.. stillcool Jun 2020 #5
Not enough death for him bdamomma Jun 2020 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
2. Nobody in the WH or senate GOP will stand up to him, this is how it all ends, my friend
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 11:18 AM
Jun 2020

Putin has told him if he escalates and starts killing he can cancel elections, etc, or make them impossible to vote in.

He is gonna do it...I said that 4 yrs ago.

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
3. Do you have a corroborating source other than that clickbait site?
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 11:21 AM
Jun 2020

I won't go there.

Never mind:

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/at-trump-s-command-pentagon-rushes-active-duty-troops-to-dc-but-prefers-not-to-use-them-1.632173

The other mentions of 1500 troops refer to National Guard troops, not active-duty military.

I think your original source got it wrong, which is not surprising, since it's just a one-person clickbait site.

bdamomma

(63,657 posts)
4. Not enough death for him
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 11:24 AM
Jun 2020

Putin giving him the order. tRump will be over then and there will be blood in the streets.

This must stop now.

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