Trump buried for new threat to military leaders using 'know-nothing loyalists'

Reacting to a report from NBC News that Donald Trump's transition team has been busy making a list of military officials involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal he wants to be investigated and possibly court-martialed, former War College instructor Tom Nichols raised a red flag on the impact it will have on the Pentagon.

NBC reported, "Officials working on the transition are considering creating a commission to investigate the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, including gathering information about who was directly involved in the decision-making for the military, how it was carried out, and whether the military leaders could be eligible for charges as serious as treason, the U.S. official and person with knowledge of the plan said."

Speaking with MSNBC host Alex Witt, a visibly shook Nichols stated, "We really have to drop the narrative that somehow this is about Afghanistan. It has nothing to do with Afghanistan."

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"This is Trump firing a shot over the heads of senior officers, telling them that from now on, loyalty to the Constitution is not their oath," he accused. "That from now on, it's loyalty to him and he won't tolerate the kind of things that happened in his first administration where he had people like General Mark Milley and others refusing and talking him out of doing things like shooting protesters in the streets."

Asked about the president-elect's choice of embattled Fox News personality Petet Hegseth as the new Secretary of Defense, Nichols replied, "Hegseth has no idea what he's doing. He has his own dirty laundry that he doesn't want to come out, as you're seeing now in the reporting about his background and he would be perfectly happy to do whatever Donald Trump tells him to do."

"This would not be a secretary of defense again who observes his oath to the Constitution or protects and takes care of the people under his stewardship, both civilian and military," he warned. "If Donald Trump says fire up some court-martials and go after some people that made me angry four years ago, he's going to do it. "

"If you're going to undermine a democracy, the three most important departments you need to capture are justice, defense, and the intelligence community and he has put know-nothing loyalists into all of them, or is trying to," he added.

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