The Wild Trump Ride

For John, BLUF:  Civil-Military relations are easy when you have a General Marshall, who never voted, because it was unbecoming a Commissioned Officer in the US Military.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Lara Logan:  Retired Generals Waging Information Warfare Campaign Against Trump

Here is the sub-headline:

Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Lara Logan discussed how retired generals who are speaking out against President Trump are either “complicit” with or waging an information warfare campaign against him, in an interview with Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday.

From Breitbard News, by Reporter Kristins Wong, 10 Jun 2020.

Here is the lede plus two:

Logan reminded listeners of the Russian collusion narrative, and how many officials from the Justice Department, Director of National Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and other agencies worked together to push the idea that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

“Think about how many people it took who had to be complicit to push that narrative.  Think about the secretaries of defense and the national security advisers that served at that time, who all had access to the intelligence.  They all knew it wasn’t true,” Logan told show host Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow.

“General [Jim] Mattis, he knew. General [H.R.] McMaster, he knew. General [John] Kelly, he knew. One after another, after another.  You can name them, and strangely enough, it’s the same people standing up now taking shots at the president.  The same people, so they were silent then, but they sure as hell have got a lot to say now, don’t they?” she added.

Read the whole thing to get a sense of it.  What we are seeing is people who held their peace, and then felt, with the edifice collapsing, it was time to speak out.  To the degree that is the case, it is not very honorable.

On the other hand, they and their friends can just say, "but Trump."

On the other other hand, it may be that President Trump is not collapsing and that come November he will win the needed Electoral College votes for re-election.  Stranger things have happened.  Look at 2016.

Hat tip to my Wife, who found this.

Regards  —  Cliff