Defense

In the middle of a pandemic, the Trump Adm has proposed gutting the military healthcare system, all while protecting profits for wealthy defense contractors. This would hurt active duty troops, military retirees, & their families across the country.

Pentagon officials working on Defense Secretary Mark Esper's cost-cutting review of the department have proposed slashing military health care by $2.2 billion, a reduction that some defense officials say could effectively gut the Pentagon’s health care system during a nationwide pandemic.

CNN has made an admirable effort to continue to update the list of 37 - YES 37 - times Trump has obeyed his boss Putin.

Over the years, Trump's made no secret that he has a soft spot for the country and its authoritarian leader, Vladimir Putin. Trump has proved that he is willing to reject widely held US foreign policy views and align himself with the Kremlin on everything from Russian interference in US elections to the war in Syria.

Trump plays favorites with governors that are loyal to him by rewarding them with our taxpayer dollars.  The rot of corruption is endless.

Trump agreed to continue paying for the full cost of National Guard troops deployed to help with the coronavirus response in just two states -- Texas and Florida -- after their Republican governors appealed directly to him.

Another gift from Trump to Putin.  Stalin is smiling in hell....

The United States is removing nearly 12,000 American troops from Germany and will move the headquarters of U.S. European Command from Germany to Belgium.... 

A gun lobbyist turned White House lawyer helped lift the ban on gun silencer sales to foreign buyers, enacted by the State Department to protect U.S. troops abroad.

Michael B. Williams [33 years old] spent nearly two years helping to run a trade group focused on expanding sales of firearm silencers by American manufacturers.

But try as he might, he could not achieve one of the industry’s main goals: overturning a ban on sales to private foreign buyers enacted by the State Department to protect American troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Trump was elected with Putin's help to do Putin's bidding.  He is doing this in ways we can't even imagine.

Russia routinely exploited a US policy of increased information sharing to target Chechen dissidents, according to three law-enforcement and intelligence officials in Europe.

The practice emerged after the Trump administration backed a policy of sharing more secret information with Russia, in hope of strengthening relations.

We were told Mexico would pay for it.  Then Trump stole money from our military to build a few miles of xenophobic wall.   Senate Republicans refuse to do it, but fortunately our courts are reminding Trump that he is not a king.

The Trump administration does not have the authority to use military funding to pay for construction of a border wall, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday [6/26/20].

An update to our October 18, 2019 post linked here when it was heavily rumored that Trump would withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty. 

Trump has removed 3 inspectors general on a Friday night in the last 6 weeks.

In each case, he had a rather clear political motivation.

Right before our eyes he's eliminating all oversight and obstructing justice.

Time is running out.

THIS IS A BIG DEAL.  THIS IS THE CORRUPTION ON AN UNIMAGINABLE LEVEL.  THIS IS A CODE RED ALARM.  

Last week, I started to read a tweet that said Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, a former defense contractor lobbyist with no qualifications to lead the strongest military in history, was reallocating defense funds.  I immediately thought it would have something to do with mitigating the impact of COVID-19.  Silly me.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper is directing Pentagon budget planners to defer $545 million worth of construction projects... in Europe meant to counter Russian aggression - to pay for Trump’s border wall with Mexico.