Lieutenant General Mark Hertling (retired) told MSNBC that President Donald Trump’s plan to use U.S. military against Americans is “illegal” and that the armed forces “will not execute illegal orders” from Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
But there were also soldiers and, well, all ranks of services, in that audience that said, wait a minute, when they were writing down the same kind of checklist that I was writing down, saying, wait a minute, we can’t do that, or we shouldn’t do that, or this is a true violation of what we are as professionals or, hey, I’ve got women in my ranks who are performing admirably.
Why should I kind of lump them all together like the secretary did? Or I’m certainly now going to debate with myself, what am I going to say if I’m asked to go on the street and conduct illegal actions? I guarantee you that the people in that audience will not execute illegal orders.
(Source: MSNBC)