Trump’s Fascist Takeover: Undermining the Military’s Integrity | Strategy Session

PART 3 FT COMMANDER BOBBY JONES & DR. PETER SIMI

As Donald Trump deploys Marines to put down protests against ICE in Los Angeles, thousands of troops are preparing for his big parade in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, June 14.

But make no doubt about it: This isn’t like military parades we’ve seen in the past. That’s why Lincoln Square hosted this special tonight with Rick Wilson, Joe Trippi, and Stuart Stevens joined by a panel of top legal, military, and historical experts.

“This is a very big departure from a lot of other American military parades because it doesn't celebrate the accomplishments on the battlefield, of men and women on the battlefield, but it's more been designed to celebrate Donald Trump,” Rick noted at the top of the show.

As author and attorney Jay Kuo noted, Trump became enamored with the idea of a military parade after witnessing Bastille Day in France.

“You know, there's so much personal ego involved here,” he said.

Olivia Troye served as a Homeland Security Advisor during Trump’s first term and witnessed his obsession with holding a military parade in his own honor.

“He has no respect for the people serving in the military or the intelligence community. He has shown us. We've seen what he calls people, right?” she said. “… But the other part of it is we have to really ensure that we don't take the bait and that there's no violence at these and that these protests don't become that because I think that's what he wants.”

As for Trump sending in National Guard troops and Marines to California, former Senator Doug Jones noted how different this is than federal actions during the Civil Rights movement.

“In 1965, Lyndon Johnson called up, federalized the Alabama National Guard. But he did it to protect those that were protesting — not to attack them, not to push them back,” the senator said. “… And so what we're seeing here is just turning this on its head in order to protect this crazy notion of what Donald Trump and Stephen Miller stand for. And that is just basically a policy of not deportation, but rendition. And there's a difference, folks.”

Trump has been labeling the protests, which have overwhelmingly been peaceful, as an “insurrection,” Dr. Pete Simi noted.

“I think we see this as the most recent chapter of an emerging agenda that Trump brought into office. And we saw it early on when he first took office with the pardons of the J6 folks that attacked the U.S. Capitol [in 2021] and assaulted police officers,” he said. “That sets the stage for essentially legitimizing essentially political violence in a very formal way.”

THIS IS PART 3 OF A 3 PART STRATEGY SESSION SPECIAL RECORDED ON 6/10

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