All ten living former defense secretaries, including Dick Cheney and James Mattis, have warned that U.S. military protesters involved in election disputes would take the country to a “dangerous” area, in a Washington Post that acted Sunday.
Why it matters: The secretaries’ request that the ‘time to question the results’ of the 2020 election be over comes as an increasing number of Republican senators join Republicans in the House in plans to object to Joe’s victory Praying through the Electoral College.
What they say: “Our elections took place. Surveys and audits were done. Appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts. Governors certified the results. And the electoral college voted, ‘the former defense secretaries wrote.
- “The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and the statute, has arrived.”
- The call also calls on the Department of Defense to carry out a peaceful, transparent and cooperative transition within its own agency, and to refrain from political action that undermines the outcome of the election or the success of the new team. obstruct.’