“The challenge to a peaceful transfer of power after President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election has worsened ‘an extremely adverse environment’ for the U.S. military, according to an open letter signed by several top generals and former defense secretaries,” the New York Times reports.
“The letter does not mention Mr. Trump by name. But in 16 points on the principles that are supposed to define civil-military relations, the signatories issued a thinly veiled indictment of Mr. Trump and the legions of his followers who called on the military to support his false claim that the election was stolen from him.”
“Two former defense secretaries who served under Mr. Trump, Jim Mattis and Mark T. Esper, were among those who signed the letter.”
