{"id":12430,"date":"2020-06-18T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12430"},"modified":"2020-06-17T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T19:46:53","slug":"military-intelligence-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/military-intelligence-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Military-Intelligence Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not long after a number of generals and admirals recently weighed in with renewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/not-so-retiring-retired-military-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticism of the president in orchestrated unison<\/a>, presidential candidate Joe Biden seemed giddy at their effort. After breezily asserting that \u201cthis president is going to try to steal this election,\u201d&nbsp;Biden then charged additionally that Trump might not depart peacefully after losing the election .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, according to Biden, Trump would either steal an election, claim he won, and then not leave after really losing it, or he would clearly lose it and then refuse to vacate the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Biden bragged that he was not worried, now that retired generals had \u201cripped the skin off of Trump,\u201d and thus could be counted on as muscle by the new president Biden:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>I was so damn proud. You have four chiefs of staff coming out&nbsp;and ripping the skin off of Trump, and you have so many rank-and-file military personnel saying, \u201cWhoah, we\u2019re not a military state. This is not who we are.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden then offered the warning, \u201cI promise you, I\u2019m absolutely convinced they will escort him from the White House with great dispatch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/military-intelligence-complex\/\">Read the full article here  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Not long after a number of generals and admirals recently weighed in with renewed criticism of the president in orchestrated unison, presidential candidate Joe Biden seemed giddy at their effort. After breezily asserting that \u201cthis president is going to try to steal this election,\u201d&nbsp;Biden then charged additionally that Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3eu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11893,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/would-president-joe-biden-become-25th-amendment-material\/","url_meta":{"origin":12430,"position":0},"title":"Would President Joe Biden Become 25th Amendment Material?","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Ispeculate only because since January 2017 our popular culture and intelligentsia have suggested President Trump is crazy and should be removed under the 25th Amendment. 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