The Trump Complaint Thread

Concerning CECOT, the reporting pulled by CBS, etc.: I believe we truly went publicly off the tracks in 2002 with the John Yoo "Torture Memo" where we attempted to legally justify the unjustifiable. It made America no different than any other nation and no better than the worst. It made a joke of our morality.

When John McCain didn't resign on the spot, didn't even protest, he dishonored himself and heros like Jeremiah Denton. He absolved his North Vietnamese torturers. He (and the rest of our government and judiciary that went along) nullified the propriety of the Nuremburg trials, and the hangings of Tojo and the rest of the Japanese and NAZI war criminals. We affirmed Herman Goering's arguments.

The current regime despises democracy, freedom and the American people. They are believers in "Might makes Right" and will never release power voluntarily. I believe they will point to their "successes" and claim that "We are at War" and suspend elections. I believe, like the Israelis with their government, we will allow them to do as they please. I believe we are in desperate trouble.
 
Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.
My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.
Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.
If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.
Senator Mark Kelly
 
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