The talking points in the letter fall generally in line with die-hard loyalists in Trump’s orbit, who question the results of the election despite the fact that the courts and Trump’s own Justice Department said there was no reason to declare him the winner. Mike Mullen, a former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, describing it as replete with “right-wing Republican talking points.” “I think it hurts the military and by extension it hurts the country,” said retired Adm. Jim Golby, an expert in civil-military relations, called it a “shameful effort to use their rank and the military’s reputation for such a gross and blatant partisan attack,” while a retired Air Force colonel who teaches cadets at the Air Force Academy, Marybeth Ulrich, labeled it “anti-democratic.” One serving Navy officer, who did not want to be identified publicly, called it “disturbing and reckless.” The group’s website claims that “we are in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776.”Īs news of the letter spread, it set off a round of recriminations among current and former military members. military as political pawns with thousands of troops deployed around the U.S. It goes on to accuse congressional leaders of “using the U.S. The broadside also raises questions about “the mental and physical condition of the Commander in Chief” and sounds the alarm about a host of hot-button issues, such as the border wall.
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