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Team Trump Mulling Deploying Military to Streets on Day 1 if Elected: Report (www.thedailybeast.com)

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The former president’s allies are developing a plan that would immediately deploy the military to the streets against potential demonstrators.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuckin yikes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That’s vastly understating the matter.

Him doing that would very likely kick off another civil war. Some governors would absolutely refuse to release their state national guards for this duty, which would be a massive constitutional crisis, but frankly probably way better than just letting it happen.