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    Das Weiße Haus erklärt alle Militärbefehle von Trump für legal

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    2. cathexis08 on

      Spoken like an organization that knows that a lot of their stuff isn’t.

    3. Appropriate-Soft-188 on

      If they’re all legal, then they have nothing to fear and need to stop hiding their doings from the press

    7. brain_overclocked on

      >White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says “all orders” from President Trump are “lawful orders,” and troops have no right to question him.

      >“All lawful—all orders—lawful orders are presumed to be legal by our service members. You can’t have a functioning military if there is disorder and chaos within the ranks,” Leavitt told reporters outside the White House on Monday. “And that’s what these Democrat members were encouraging. It’s very clear. And not a single one of them since they’ve been pressed by the media … can point to a single illegal order that this administration has given down because it does not exist.

      >“You can’t have a soldier out on the battlefield or conducting a classified order questioning whether that order is lawful or whether they should follow through,” Leavitt argued earlier, in a twisted reading of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

      So, Karoline Leavitt, when Trump gets bored of you or becomes displeased and orders the military to detain *you* without due process, or worse, will you keep defending it as a „legal“ order?

      >Unfortunately for the White House’s arguments, there have been illegal orders to the military from the Trump administration. Just last week, a federal judge ruled that Trump’s deployment of the National Guard into Washington, D.C., was illegal. But Leavitt is doing what she does best: mindlessly supporting and justifying everything the president does.

    8. Straight_Level_4662 on

      „we looked into it and we did nothing wrong“ – reliable narrator, 2025

    10. capaho on

      There was a consensus among Pentagon lawyers that the bombings of boats off the coast of Venezuela were illegal. The consensus lawyers got fired.

    11. bellamellayellafella on

      We have investigated ourselves and found we’ve done nothing wrong.

    14. Fastluck83 on

      “all orders” from President Trump are “lawful orders,” and troops have no right to question him.

      Jaja, Führer befiehl, wir folgen.

    15. ImWatchingTelevision on

      „Orders from the lawful chain-of-command are presumed lawful. If a reasonable person would recognize the
      wrongfulness of the act or order, even in light of a soldier’s general duty to obey, then the order is “manifestly
      illegal”, and soldiers have a duty to disobey it.“

    16. eri- on

      When you have to explicitly declare something is legal, odds are extremely high it isn’t.

    18. TheChainsawVigilante on

      You can’t just say the word „legal“ and expect anything to happen

    20. wirthmore on

      >you can’t have a functioning military […] you can’t have a soldier […] questioning whether that order is lawful or whether they should follow through,”

      Ya know, she’s right.

      That’s why it was always absolutely important that the President be thoroughly advised and avoid any encroachment on something that could be construed as an illegal order.

      Because if the President is careless, reckless or has malign intent, the military isn’t supposed to be rules-lawyering their orders. They’ll either reject the civilian control of the institution, or they’ll be complicit – and once they’re OK with breaking ‘some’ laws, you don’t get to decide for them which other elements of the Constitution are optional.

    21. QaraKha on

      If you have to claim they’re legal, they’re not.

      The strikes on boats in the Caribbean are all illegal; no real information, no real innate and immediate risk, in international waters, without reason. It’s just plain murder, and the Trump admin should rot in prison for it. Additionally, the naval officers who received that order and carried it out are also in legal jeopardy, and should be court martialed for it, as well. A strike on civilian boats without warning or due care is still a war crime.

      Just because they fired most of JAG doesn’t make it not illegal.

    23. twitch_delta_blues on

      “When the president does it that means it’s not illegal.” -Nixon.

    24. snoo_spoo on

      The WH says a lot of shit that isn’t true, as I was reminded during my last trip to buy groceries.

    25. Nita231 on

      The most corrupt WH in the history of America declares all of Trump’s orders to the military are legal. Great… That orange thing in the WH won’t last forever, and these “legal” actions will have to be answered for. Good luck with that.

    28. thistimelineisweird on

      Biden should’ve instructed the military to forgive student loan debt then.

    30. Stashark on

      “Trump Declares All of Trump’s Orders to Military Are Legal” – Donald Trump

    32. c4upinhisbhole on

      All of my military orders are legal too. See how I did that. Anyone can play this dumbass game.

    33. Unique-Coffee5087 on

      >On the 23 March 1933, Hitler proposed the Enabling Law to the Reichstag. This new law gave Hitler the power to rule by decree rather than passing laws through the Reichstag and the president. If passed, the law would establish the conditions needed for dictatorial rule.

      [https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-nazi-rise-to-power/how-did-the-nazi-gain-power/the-enabling-law/](https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-nazi-rise-to-power/how-did-the-nazi-gain-power/the-enabling-law/)

    34. sedatedlife on

      The way the Whitehouse has been acting since the add makes me believe there is already Military members refusing orders and are panicked it will spread.

    35. Trick-Set-1165 on

      >All lawful—all orders—lawful orders are presumed to be legal by our service members.

      That’s sort of true, actually. Orders are presumed to be lawful. The only way most servicemembers are going to find themselves in trouble is if they follow a clearly unlawful order.

      > And not a single one of them since they’ve been pressed by the media … can point to a single illegal order that this administration has given down because it does not exist.

      See, **that’s** where she’s wrong.

      Those orders to nationalize and deploy the National Guard that got blocked in court? Those were illegal orders. Patently.

    36. Choice-of-SteinsGate on

      This is exactly what those Democrats who the Trump administration has deemed „seditious traitors“ were warning us about.

      This would be comical if it wasn’t so disturbing.

    37. mtheory007 on

      Strong Richard Nixon vibes here. „If the president does it it’s not illegal“.

      This man must be stopped. He’s monster.

    38. ArrowheadDZ on

      > “You can’t have a functioning military if there is disorder and chaos within the ranks,” Leavitt told reporters outside the White House on Monday.

      I’m a retired military officer, how about you don’t try to “mansplain” to me how a functioning military works.

    39. Spacebotzero on

      That’s not how this works. That not how any of this works

      No way the US military gets behind this.

    41. TheShape108 on

      Having to make a point to declare that all your orders are legal is a pretty good indication that they’re probably not legal.

    42. Responsible_Swim_319 on

      I agree with Trump on the re opening of Alcatraz. We need a place to send him and all his lawless boys. Hegseth, Rubio, Bondi and the whole bunch of complicit Senators!

    47. JacquesBlaireau13 on

      That *carte blanche* the Supreme Court gave him does not extend to anyone but him. Service members are still bound to their oaths to the **Constitution**.

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