Questions arise over Special Forces guarding Donald Trump from protests
On Wednesday night, after five days of at-times violent confrontations between police and thousands joining protests near the White House, a group of U.S. Army special operations soldiers for the first time fell into formation to face off with the angry crowd.
Many immediately noticed the arrowhead patches of the Army's Special Forces on the left sleeves of the unarmed, but baton-carrying Utah National Guard troops in multicam uniforms, who joined the security perimeter with a myriad of law enforcement officers and wondered why they were there -- and whether they should be there at all.
"I'm kind of horrified by seeing the junta-looking Guard guys around D.C. I hate the optics of it," retired Army Special Forces Col. Robert Wilson told ABC News Thursday.
Wilson is a Green Beret and former commander of 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), who was counterterrorism director in the Trump administration's National Security Council prior to retiring from active duty in 2017. The soldiers from the Utah-based 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne) were those guarding his former workplace on Wednesday.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/questions-arise-over-special-forces-guarding-donald-trump-010605207--abc-news-topstories.html
Sounds like bunker boy wants his own praetorian guard. If he read any history he'd know they often turned on their emperor.
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