Maddow: Trump's Deliberate Degradation of U.S. Military, Law Enforcement Points to New Mission

Maddow: Trump's deliberate degradation of U.S. military, law enforcement points to new mission

Rachel Maddow looks at the big picture of high profile national security firings and the lowering of standards for entry to the FBI as part of an overall "deprofessionalizing" of the U.S. military and law enforcement, which suggests that Trump is intending to use those forces in a way that is different from what they've been trained for.

Unjust Firings Damage Military Expertise

The Trump Administration has fired three more senior military officers, bringing the total to 14: Joint Chiefs Chairman General CQ Brown Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti Air Force Chief of Staff General David Alvin Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan Air Force Vice Chief of Staff General James Slife Director of the National Security Agency General Tim Haugh Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Jeffrey K…

Rachel Maddow Sounds The Alarm That Trump Is Trying To Repurpose The Military And Federal Law Enforcement

Please support the independent journalism of The Daily by becoming a subscriber.Subscribe nowDonald Trump told the country during the 2024 campaign that this was going to happen. It would take ICE years to hire enough agents to get up to the level of staffing that would be needed to carry out Trump’s goal of deporting 20 million people from the United States.First, Trump insisted that he would recruit local enforcement to help deport immigrants,…