Top US general says military will not escort Donald Trump from the White House if election disputed

Top US general says military will not escort Donald Trump from the White House if election disputedAmerica’s most senior gen­er­al has declared the mil­i­tary will not inter­vene if Don­ald Trump were to decline to leave the White House fol­low­ing a dis­put­ed US elec­tion. In a let­ter to Con­gress, Mark Mil­ley, the Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he did not envis­age sol­diers play­ing any role if Repub­li­cans and Democ­rats did not agree on the result. Mr Trump has repeat­ed­ly voiced con­cerns that the elec­tion will be under­mined by fraud dur­ing wide­spread mail-in vot­ing amid the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic, and sug­gest­ed that the result may nev­er be known. Joe Biden, the Demo­c­rat nom­i­nee, has said he fears Mr Trump will try to “steal” the elec­tion but the mil­i­tary would “escort him from the White House with great dis­patch.” Demo­c­rat con­gress­women Elis­sa Slotkin and Mikie Sher­rill wrote to the gen­er­al seek­ing answers as to what the military’s role would be. In a writ­ten response Gen­er­al Mil­ley, known to be a stu­dent of mil­i­tary his­to­ry, wrote: “I believe deeply in the prin­ci­ple of an apo­lit­i­cal US mil­i­tary. In the event of a dis­pute over some aspect of the elec­tions, by law US courts and the US Con­gress are required to resolve any dis­putes, not the US mil­i­tary. “I fore­see no role for the US armed forces in this process. We will not turn our backs on the Con­sti­tu­tion of the Unit­ed States.” Ms Slotkin said: “These are just pru­dent ques­tions to be ask­ing giv­en the things that the pres­i­dent has been say­ing pub­licly.” She said the general’s answers “demon­strat­ed that the chair­man recog­nised the military’s role in our elec­tions is to essen­tial­ly stay out, that the military’s role in the peace­ful tran­si­tion of pow­er is to stay out.” Last month, Mr Trump said it was too ear­ly to guar­an­tee he would accept the elec­tion results. He said: “I have to see. Look, I have to see. No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say no.”


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