The President of the United States is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.
All of them. No question. No quibbles.
From the London Daily Mail:
'You can't f***ing talk to me like that': Trump screamed at Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley in the Situation Room when he refused his order to take charge of the crackdown on George Floyd protesters
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- Trump and Milley got in a shouting match after Trump told Milley to take charge of the protest crackdown
- 'I said you're in f---ing charge!' Trump told him, according to a new book
- Milley told him it was not his responsibility
- Trump called the account fake news, but senior officials confirmed it to author
- Follows earlier excerpt of Trump reportedly telling Milley to 'crack skulls'
- Two senior Trump administration officials told The New York Times that aides wrote a draft proclamation to invoke the Insurrection Act
- The proclamation was drafted on June 1, 2020
- That same day, Trump had given a fiery speech in which he threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 and said he would call up the military
- 'I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,' Trump had said in the speech
- He 'was aware' the aides had drafted the document, one former official said
- Trump never invoked the act and denied that he had wanted to deploy active-duty troops in a statement to The New York Times
Former President Donald Trump got in an obscenity-laced screaming match with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley as the president tried to get Milley to take charge of a crackdown on domestic protests last summer.
Trump berated the top military commander and Army General over the president's demand that Milley oversee the effort – which Milley resisted by invoking longstanding constraints on military interference in domestic affairs.
'I said you're in f***ing charge!' Trump yelled at Milley, according to a new Axios excerpt from Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender's book, Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost.
'Well, I'm not in charge!' Milley shouted back, according to Bender, further stoking Trump's fury.
'You can't f***ing talk to me like that!' Trump responded.
#1) - President Trump did have the authority to call in the military. The National Guard might have been a better choice but since they are run by each State, the chain of command is not quite as direct. The Military does whatever their Commander tells them to do. More information? The Insurrection Act
The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law (10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255) (until 2016, found at 10 US Code, Chapter 15, §§ 331-335, renumbered to 10 USC, Chapter 13, §§ 251-255) that governs the ability of the President of the United States to deploy military troops within the United States to put down lawlessness, insurrection, and rebellion.
#2) - If we had rounded up the ringleaders and handed out substantial sentences to the rioters, rioting would no longer have been "fun" or "edgy" for the kiddies and their acting out would have stopped inside of a day or two. We would be a lot better off. Several thousand people would still be alive and several thousand businesses would still be serving their neighborhoods. The only "good" that came out of these "peaceful protests" was for the deep state and their ability to control us and to cement their power.
It was never about Justice. It was about totalitarian control.
My only question is - where was this when it was soooo needed:
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