Veteran's Outrage Against Trump Administration

Malcolm S. Ritchie, Lieutenant Colonel Retired,

US Army Reserve, three

combat tours in Iraq, thirty-two years of service

in the United States Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard.

And I'm here today not as a candidate,

making that disclaimer.

I am here

to

express my outrage

at the meeting in Quantico, Virginia,

between Hegseth,

Trump,

and all of the senior officers in the

United States military and the senior NCO corps.

Those generals, admirals, and senior NCOs sat there in

stone-faced silence, listening to the most

outrageous speeches ever made in United States

military history

by the Secretary of Defense

and the President of the United States.

Secretary of Defense

on his ridiculous rant trying to take to school

generals, admirals, senior NCOs

with ten times the leadership ability, the

education, and the experience

that the failed Major Hegseth could ever begin

to understand.

And then they have to listen to the cognitively declined

President of the United States, who I would now name as dictator of the

United States,

tell this audience that they will be expected to wage war

against the

American people. That's exactly what Trump said.

So don't get on here and try to tell me that he didn't say it.

Training grounds in American cities. What does that mean?

They're going to go in locked and loaded into American cities, American

neighborhoods,

and use American citizens as pop-up targets on a

live-fire training range?

This is absolutely astounding

abuse of power,

which makes,

by my

estimation,

Donald Trump a domestic enemy of the Constitution.

Because my oath is to the Constitution, and don't you think for one

minute,

Mr. Trump, that there aren't millions of other

veterans and

retirees that feel exactly the same way.

We are enraged. We are beyond enraged.

And we will protest peacefully, and we will go out and

vote for the candidates of our choice in the twenty twenty-six

midterm election, which you better not even try to stop.

If you try to stop that by force, that's a nightmare scenario.

And I'm not saying by violence. I'm saying politically,

basically,

you're done, Trump.

You're done, Hegseth. It won't be long

before you're politically thrown down that dark, deep

hole. But don't think it's not going to cause a

lot of trauma on the

American people as they clutch to the roots of the hole

on the way down,

trying to survive something

that they cannot possibly survive, because this nation is a

republic, and it will not fall to a

fascist regime.