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Maya Boddie

DOD worried about "illegal" Trump order

During the House's final Jan. 6 hearing Monday, the committee found that leading up to the insurrection, Department of Defense officials worried that Donald Trump would impose an 'illegal order' on U.S. troops to support his plan to incite a riot, HuffPost reports.

"The select committee recognizes that some at the department had genuine concerns, counseling caution, that President Trump might give an illegal order to use the military in support of his efforts to overturn the election," the committee stated in the 161-page executive summary of the report.

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