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Proclaiming Trumps foreign relations ineptitude does not excuse or legitimize Milley's treachery.

Thomas Jefferson to John B. Colvin
20 Sept. 1810Works 11:146

The question you propose, whether circumstances do not sometimes occur, which make it a duty in officers of high trust, to assume authorities beyond the law, is easy of solution in principle, but sometimes embarrassing in practice. A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

I believe Milley was acting in the highest duty, and Trump is a traitorous grifter who betrayed his highest duty.

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