Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

It's not limited to what they know, but also what they should know… common sense can prevail.

"Obedience to an unlawful order does not necessarily result in criminal responsibility of the person obeying the order. The acts of the accused if done in obedience to an unlawful order are excused and carry no criminal responsibility unless the accused knew that the order was unlawful or unless the order was one which a person of ordinary common sense, under the circumstances, would know to be unlawful."

So a solider being ordered to hold the line in a combat zone and take out everyone coming out of a building is a lawful order.
However if women and children start coming out of the building, it's common sense not to open fire on them.
The order is slightly vague, but in a combat situation it's understandable. It's a lawful order, he wasn't ordered to shoot civilians, however when he see's civilians coming out it's a pretty black and white situation not to fire on them.

There's certainly grey areas in situations, but those members of congress were just reminding the military of the laws they operate under.

Will be fantastic to see him in the Hague in a few years when the Trump admin is not there to protect him, a good few of them will be tied up in legal cases, hopefully the dems grow a pair this time wgen cleaning up this time and go as hard at them as possible, they need to be ready to go the day after a new regine gets in to sweeep as many up and in detention as possuble

Back in the felon's 1.0 the op in north Korea where the seal team where planting a listening device was disturbed by a fishing boat they where all killed to protect the team NYT again with the story

I think Miller is behind the posts on lie social staring to reverse migration been mentioned this is a nazi administration

I'd say that it was external pressure that caused him to speak up, not any crisis of conscious of his

Both are illegal in any country except the US. If its not illegal in the US it is purely to protect itself.

But you know that it is completely immoral. It goes against everything the US is supposed to stand for. It denies any form of justice in the drive for vengeance.

The actions of the US government in relation to these attacks are sounding more like something Duterte or Bolsonaro would have been engaged in. In terms of the administration being brazen enough to show off criminal conduct, yes that absolutely tracks with the administration's existing behavior.

Also this is rapidly falling outside of your previous claims they're following everything to the letter of the law. The likes of Kelly are sounding spot on, one illegal act of refusing to follow an order versus committing an illegal massacre. The former is ultimately coming across as far more ethical.

Trump must be happy nobody is talking about the Epstein files now with all these other issues

More distractions upcoming....

So Hegseth will be running this operation ? The man who had survivors gunned down in the water ? Expect many, many war crimes… maybe this will bring down the administration, things could get too ugly for the republicans