The ten former US Defense Secretaries. The U.S., Republicans and Democrats, criticize the attitude of President Donald Trump and his party to continue in an election dispute that is “already resolved.” They warn of the dangers of this behavior.
Ten living former US Defense Secretaries. UU. They have signed a letter ending the process of winning the presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden, while outgoing President Donald Trump continues to deny electoral defeat in these elections.
Ten former Pentagon excerpts – 8 Republicans, and 2 Democrats – who have served with 5 presidents – 3 Republicans, 3 Democrats – wrote a letter to the Donald Trump administration because, once and for all, stop blocking the transfer of power to Joe Biden and accept defeat.
They state in the letter that “efforts to involve the Armed Forces in resolving electoral disputes could lead us to unconstitutional, illegal, and dangerous territory.”
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The letter, published this Sunday by The Washington Post and picked up by other local media, it is announced on the eve of the elections that will decide the control of the Senate and after the same newspaper revealed the pressure exerted by the current ruler to manipulate the calculation of the elections.
The document is signed by Dick Cheney, James Mattis, Mark Esper, Leon Panetta, Donald Rumsfeld, William Cohen, Chuck Hagel, Robert Gates, William Perry and Ashton Carter, and it intends to attack Trump’s efforts to subvert last November’s presidential election, before Congress counts the votes of the Electoral College. What will happen this Wednesday.
“Our elections have been held. Counts and audits have been carried out. The courts have addressed the relevant challenges. The governors have certified the results. And the polling station has voted. Time has passed to question the results; the time of the formal scrutiny of the votes of the electoral college “, assure the signatories in the letter.
According to CNN, since election day, Trump has falsely claimed that his second term is being stolen, even when there have been no credible allegations of widespread voting problems, as dozens of judges have stated. , governors and election officials, the Electoral College, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and the United States Supreme Court.
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Still, a large number of Republican congressmen are on the side of the president and plan to object to Biden’s victory during the Electoral College count on Wednesday, which, at most, could only delay the confirmation of the victory of the Democrat.
Former Secretaries of Defense, all of whom are active and have decades of responsibility in the post, stress that presidential transitions “are a crucial part of the successful transfer of power.”
“They often occur in times of international uncertainty about U.S. national security policy and stance. They can be a time when the nation is vulnerable to the actions of adversaries seeking to take advantage of the situation,” they warn.
The signatories end up urging the Department of Defense to “abstain from any political action” that could undermine election results or jeopardize the transition to a new administration.
“We ask them, in the strongest terms, to do what so many generations of Americans have done before them,” they advise in the text, as “this final action is in accordance with the highest traditions and professionalism. of the United States Armed Forces and the History of the Democratic Transition in Our Great Country. “