Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), in a scathing letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, slammed “partisans and obstructionists” at the Department of Defense who are already plotting ways to thwart the incoming president’s agenda.
Cotton was responding to reports that officials within the United States government are conspiring against President-elect Donald Trump to undermine decisions he finds warranted in furthering the interests of this nation.
Like mass deportations or firing underperforming officials.
“It appears that partisans and obstructionists inside the Department of Defense are laying groundwork to defy or circumvent President Trump’s plans for both military and civil-service reform,” Cotton wrote. “These actions undermine civilian control of the military and our constitutional structure of government.”
As RedState previously reported, the crux of these rogue officials’ concerns involves stated intentions by Trump to make a national emergency declaration to repurpose assets from the Pentagon to detain and deport illegal immigrants.
“Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders,” a defense official asserted. “But the question is what happens then – do we see resignations from senior military leaders? Or would they view that as abandoning their people?”