Steve SchmidtVerified account

The United States Military serves the nation. It is faithful to the American Constitution. It is apolitical. It serves no man. The men and women who serve protect us. They are the sentinels of liberty and freedom. They are us. They are the most lethal combat force in world

history. They are soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coastguardsmen not Law Enforcement. Trump’s threat against the American people isn’t just disgraceful and dangerous, it is real and it looms over the nation in this hour of crisis. The crisis isn’t the protestors. (2)

It’s the President. He is a cowardly man who deserted the Oval Office and fled to an underground Bunker. Dolly Madison he was not. He desecrated a bible after doing violence to the American people. Lawfully assembled Americans were exercising their Constitutional rights to (3)

Speech and assembly when they were gassed, beaten, trampled and assaulted by the very Law Enforcement officers who were obligated by oath to protect them. This included an Episcopal Priest in a house of worship. The order was given by a lawless Attorney General who has assumed (4

the trappings of an Interior Minister in a decaying Thugocracy. He has flooded the streets with heavily armed Paramilitary forces lacking identification. It is in this moment when Trump has been declared a real threat to the Constitution by an army of Former Defense Secretaries 5