WASHINGTON (INP) :A former Defense Department official under the Obama administration has raised the spectre of a military coup to remove President Donald Trump from power.
\nIn an editorial penned for Foreign Policy, senior Pentagon policy official Rosa Brooks publicly suggested a military insurrection against the Trump administration may be the only option to oust one of the most divisive presidents in American history.
\n\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s first week as president has made it all too clear: Yes, he is as crazy as everyone feared,\u201d Ms. Brooks wrote. \u201cOne possibility is that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders.\u201d
\nFor the first time in her career in public service, including three years as senior counsellor to the Pentagon\u2019s policy chief from 2009 to 2011, \u201cI can imagine plausible scenarios in which senior military officials might simply tell the president: \u2018No, sir. We\u2019re not doing that.\u2019\u201d
\nMs. Brooks\u2018 editorial comes as a recent poll by Public Policy Polling group found that 40 percent of registered voters support Mr. Trump\u2019s impeachment.
\nIn addition, 52 percent of voters polled said they would rather have President Obama in the Oval Office, opposed to the 43 percent who support the Trump presidency.
\n\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s making history once again with a sizeable share of voters already wanting to impeach him, and a majority of voters wishing they could have Barack Obama back,\u201d Public Policy Polling Group President Dean Debnam said Thursday.
\nIn the editorial, Ms. Brooks noted that Mr. Trump\u2019s \u201cthin-skinned, erratic, and unconstrained\u201d approach to matters of defense could put top U.S. military leaders in a position where they would be forced to execute orders that may be \u201cdangerously unhinged\u201d from a basic understanding of national security.
\n\u201cThe prospect of American military leaders responding to a presidential order with open defiance is frightening but so, too, is the prospect of military obedience to an insane order,\u201d Ms. Brooks wrote.
\n\u201cAfter all, military officers swear to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not the president,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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