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Botany

(77,865 posts)
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 10:34 AM Aug 2025

Trump's use of the military in D.C. is illegal end of story.

The Posse Comitatus Act is a US federal law that restricts the use of the US military for domestic law enforcement purposes. It generally prohibits the military from acting as a police force in civilian matters unless explicitly authorized by the Constitution or Congress.

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Trump's use of the military in D.C. is illegal end of story. (Original Post) Botany Aug 2025 OP
This is National Guard not Regular Army underpants Aug 2025 #1
my understanding as well. stopdiggin Aug 2025 #5
And there is no nation emergency. C_U_L8R Aug 2025 #2
Since when has that ever stopped him? BlueTsunami2018 Aug 2025 #3
The man should be in prison for any one of the numerous laws he has broken. Botany Aug 2025 #6
Should be, sure. BlueTsunami2018 Aug 2025 #7
And a totally corrupt election along with a totally corrupt power/media/wealth system installed him to burn America Botany Aug 2025 #8
It ain't illegal if you're not charged. usonian Aug 2025 #4

stopdiggin

(15,639 posts)
5. my understanding as well.
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 11:18 AM
Aug 2025

make no mistake - a really sh*tty precedent ... But not sure about illegal ...
(and neither is anyone else that has examined the National Guard issue )

BlueTsunami2018

(5,077 posts)
3. Since when has that ever stopped him?
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 11:05 AM
Aug 2025

He does something illegal. People say “That’s illegal, you can’t do that!” He continues to do it and nothing happens.

They’re fascists. They don’t give a shit what’s legal and what’s not.

Botany

(77,865 posts)
6. The man should be in prison for any one of the numerous laws he has broken.
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 11:21 AM
Aug 2025

He stole money from kids with cancer, he was part of an international child sex trafficking organization….all of his
beauty pageants and modeling try outs were about recruiting new girls to be sexually assaulted…. Cheating on his
taxes and insurance, stealing our top secrets to give to our enemies, stealing the death benefits from the families of
those killed when in service to our military for his scam Trump U, J-6th attempted coup, working for Putin, bribery,
theft, getting 150 U.S. military members having T.B.I.s because Iran shot a missile @ an American base after Trump
had an Iranian murdered under the guise of inviting him to a peace conference, killing 14 million world wide via
COVID, fucking up the White House, ….

Botany

(77,865 posts)
8. And a totally corrupt election along with a totally corrupt power/media/wealth system installed him to burn America
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 02:22 PM
Aug 2025

…. to the ground. Watch them trying to push the scam called crypto on all of us. For the love of dog he
was raping girls and he is POTUS?

usonian

(26,596 posts)
4. It ain't illegal if you're not charged.
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 11:16 AM
Aug 2025

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