Joe Biden said on Saturday that as president, he would never use the military as an "offer or private militia" and accused President Donald Trump of "personal vendetta" against US forces. "Employ to settle and violate the rights of citizens.
The Democratic presidential nominee,
speaking at the General Conference of the National Guard Association of the
United States, said Trump was "urging your fellow citizens to exercise
their right to peaceful protest, to deploy for" domination. “Recommended.”
"We're much better than that,"
Biden said. You deserve so much better. "
His remarks the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Millie, told Congress that the armed forces would
have no role in conducting the election process or resolving the disputed vote.
It was a sign of growing tensions on both
sides as the president announced without any evidence that the expected
increase in mail-ballots during the Coronavirus pandemic would lead to "wrong and
fraudulent" voting. Trump has also suggested that he may not accept the
election. Consequences if he loses.
Biden has said he is "absolutely
convinced" that if he loses the current election but refuses to step down,
he is "absolutely convinced" that the military will take Trump out of
the White House.
Addressing the conference, Biden did not
repeat the claim, but promised to restore the separation between civilian and
military powers, which he called "the bedrock principal of our
republic."
The former vice president said, "It
has been experienced recently, but I promise you, as president, I will never
put you between politics and personal vendettas." "I will never use
the military as a prop or private militia to violate the rights of Sahara
civilians. This is not law and order."
It was a reference to Trump's recent
efforts to expand federal intervention in some cities as he focused his
re-election bid on "law and order" against the backdrop of protests
against institutional racism and police brutality in the country. Makes in
July, the president deployed federal troops to Chicago and Albuquerque, New
Mexico, after sending earlier homeland security agents to Portland, Oregon.
Trump also announced this week that
federal troops were being sent’ to central Wisconsin, where unrest erupted
after police opened fire last weekend on the back of an unarmed black man,
Jacob Blake. Biden has said he considers traveling to Wisconsin to calm the
situation, but only if it is, done "safely" and without
"impressive conditions" on the ground.
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