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A billboard campaign asking soldiers to follow only lawful orders In defiance of the Trump administration Launched near a military base in Florida.
non-profit organizations Defiance.org And WhistleblowerAid.org launched the campaign at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, urging serving troops to “follow only lawful orders” amid the Trump administration’s deadly crackdown. Attacks on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, Which has taken the lives of more than 100 people so far.
“We are making sure that soldiers know their rights and that they are not alone If they are asked to cross the border“Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security official in the first administration of President Donald Trump, said in a statement. 10 Tampa Bay.
“The president may be the commander-in-chief, but he’s also bound by the law,” Taylor said. “This operation is a constitutional alarm bell to remind our troops of this.”
The organizations are providing legal advice to soldiers and providing a whistleblower hotline.
It is like this Trump’s weeks of anger end US troops are reminded in a social media video by Democratic members of Congress that they can refuse orders if they believe those orders violate their oath to the Constitution.
The six lawmakers, all of whom have military and intelligence backgrounds, warned military personnel against “threats to our Constitution” coming from “right here at home,” an apparent reference to the Trump administration’s deployment of federal National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities to support the president’s mass deportation agenda — actions that veterans groups have also publicly condemned.
This prompted Trump to call her a ‘traitor’ in a furious attack posted on his Truth social account.
“His words cannot be allowed to stand,” the President said. “Traitorous behavior by traitors!!! Lock them up???”
He then reposted another user who encouraged him to “hang ’em up.”
The billboards come amid rising tensions with Venezuela after the South American country launched a months-long campaign of military strikes targeting small vessels that US officials allege were carrying drugs.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other leaders in the region have condemned the attacks as illegal, but so far, the US has avoided coming into direct conflict with Maduro’s government or anyone else in the region.
However, Maduro remains adamant that the US goal is to overthrow him and claimed that the country would fight a guerrilla war against US forces if invaded.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced renewed scrutiny after the US military carried out a “double-tap” attack on an alleged drug boat on September 2, after it emerged that not everyone on board the boat was killed in the first attack.
Administration officials insisted that the two dozen strikes were completely within the legal limits, which was supported Administration’s notice to Congress that the US is formally engaged in “armed conflict” with drug cartels What the President has termed “unlawful combatants.”
Hegseth later rejected bipartisan congressional demands to release footage of the strike.
More US assets, including special ops aircraft and troops, arrived in the Caribbean this week, according to a report, as Trump reiterated on Monday that ground-level operations to target drug traffickers in Venezuela would soon begin.
The President confirmed that the US will continue to target small ships that his administration claims are carrying drugs with military strikes Increasing ban on oil tankers away from venezuela coast for sanctions violations.
John Bowden contributed reporting