Straw man tactic? Cheney-led ex-Pentagon chiefs admonish Trump not to involve military in election row though NO SUCH REQUEST made

All 10 former

All 10 former US defense secretaries who are still living have warned President Donald Trump not to involve the US military in his dispute over 2020 election results – despite Trump not even having hinted at taking such a step.

Any use of the military as part of an effort to overturn the November 3 presidential election’s result – which proclaimed the Democratic candidate Joe Biden as the winner – would take the US into “dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory,” the 10 ex-Pentagon bosses said in a jointly signed opinion piece published by the Washington Post on Sunday. The Associated Press described the warning as “an extraordinary rebuke” of Trump.

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