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.