Even though National Guard troops are being vetted by the FBI for potential animosity toward Joe Biden, Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen thinks that the soldiers’ sex and skin color are enough to suspect them of plotting “insurrection.”
Cohen’s suggestion that the majority of troops should be viewed with suspicion was a step too far even for CNN.
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RT reports: Following the pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill earlier this month, Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday will take place in a locked-down Washington DC, behind security fencing and a human wall of more than 20,000 soldiers. And, in an unprecedented move, both the army and FBI are vetting each and every one of them for links to right-wing extremism.
Speaking to CNN on Monday, the Tennessee Representative stated that the National Guard is “90 some-odd percent male,” and the fact that “only about 20 percent of white males voted for Biden” is enough reason to suspect dissent among the ranks deployed in Washington. Cohen claimed that “75 percent” of the troops “might want to do something” during the inauguration.
Guardsmen, like any other military personnel, take an oath to defend the Constitution of the US, and not a political loyalty test. Cohen’s suggestion that the majority of troops should be viewed with suspicion was a step too far even for CNN, whose host, Don Lemon, compared President Donald Trump’s supporters last week to the “Klan” and “Nazis.”
“To have voted for Trump does not make you an insider threat,” CNN’s chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto responded. “Is there anything you’ve seen to substantiate just how broad this insider threat may be, if it exists?”
Cohen admitted he hadn’t seen any evidence to back up his claims, but went on to say that “if you draw a circle” around “people who were for Trump and not for Biden,” everyone in that circle would be “folks that you’d be suspect of (sic).”
Online, conservatives hammered Cohen’s narrow vision of Biden’s promised “unity and healing.”
“They just can’t help themselves,” one wrote. “Our troops are defending the Capitol but Dems still hate them.”
Guardsmen, like any other military personnel, take an oath to defend the Constitution of the US, and not a political loyalty test. Cohen’s suggestion that the majority of troops should be viewed with suspicion was a step too far even for CNN, whose host, Don Lemon, compared President Donald Trump’s supporters last week to the “Klan” and “Nazis.”
“To have voted for Trump does not make you an insider threat,” CNN’s chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto responded. “Is there anything you’ve seen to substantiate just how broad this insider threat may be, if it exists?”
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Dems are sick paranoid creatures. This jerk slanders the best people in our country, soldiers and police.
So Biden is afraid of the people , and afraid of the military and afraid of the secret service and afraid to audit the paper ballots? Hmm, maybe he wasn’t elected after all?
If Guardsmen did do what this Jewish clown claims they might do, they would be the only honest people in Washington DC in a long time.
my guess is the safe thing to do would be to use UN troops.
Newsflash: The Army and National Guard have been stripped of all their bullets!
lol
We know it was white male supremacists who betrayed ateumo and set up the steal election and the antifa and the BLM and the staged show at the Capitol We know it was white racist supremacists who use people by deceiving them with the old ” trust me I’m a dentist ” tag line .We KNOW the game .They’d live to shoot Biden and blame a Trumpy Theyd love to shoot him .
Well someone has to stand up for our Constitution. The evil seditious democrats certainly aren’t.