SAT . In solidarity with protesters, a 24-year Marine Corps vet has just RESIGNED.

His letter is INSPIRING 👇

Colonel Doug Krugman reminded us of Trump’s chilling words to senior military leaders: “If you don’t like what I have to say, you can leave the room, of course, your rank, your future goes there.” For Krugman, that’s not leadership. It’s a threat to everything he’s sworn to protect.
“I volunteered to give up my rank as the president asked, but the future of our country is more important than the career, wealth, or power of any individual. I do not regret my decision. I gave up the service I loved to have the freedom to do what is right, the freedom to speak my mind, and the freedom to speak up to defend our country.”
Krugman said he could not wear the uniform of a president who demanded loyalty to himself over his country. “I gave up my career because I was concerned about the future of our country,” he wrote. “I risked my life for the Constitution, serving as an infantry officer in two wars. I watched Marines die for it.” Those were not rebel words. They were words of devotion to the republic.
As he reflected on the presidents he had served under, Krugman’s heartache deepened. “No commander is perfect,” he said. “But I continue to serve because I believe our presidents take their oaths seriously. With President Trump, I no longer believe that.”
That loss of faith wasn’t political. It was moral.

Then came the moment that shattered his faith completely. “His actions are increasingly hard to justify,” Krugman wrote, pointing to January 6 as the breaking point. “I hoped he had learned from those errors, but I realized he hadn’t. I couldn’t swear without reservation to follow a commander in chief who seemed willing to disregard the Constitution.”
What followed was an indictment of Trump’s moral collapse. “The Constitution gives the president the power to pardon,” Krugman writes, “but pardoning some 1,600 of those who tried to overturn the results of an election does not help protect the Constitution. Denying sanctuary to Afghans who risked their lives to support us is immoral. Breaking promises our country has made, including trade deals President Trump himself made, is immoral. These are not the kinds of actions I would risk my life to protect.”
From the moral to the legal, Krugman’s warning only grows sharper. “When asked in May if he had to uphold the Constitution as president, the first words out of his mouth were, ‘I don’t know.’”
For Krugman, that ignorance isn’t just wonderful. It’s inexcusable. A president who doesn’t understand the Constitution has no right to command people to die for it.

Within the military, the consequences have been widespread. “When a president’s orders push or exceed legal boundaries and put commanders in impossible situations, the cohesion of our military is at risk,” Krugman said. “Every serious basis he gives for an order creates more room for doubt, more threats to our unity.”
And then there are Trump’s most dangerous words, his call for “a war from within.” Krugman wrote, “It’s unclear whether he’s referring to actual crimes or to his political criticism. In either case, military force is not the answer.”
For a lifelong Marine, hearing the president blur the line between enemy and citizen is unbearable.
At his core, Krugman believes Trump is undermining the very foundations of the nation. “This president acts as if an election makes 236 years of constitutional order irrelevant,” he wrote. “Instead of working within the Constitution, he is testing how far he can ignore it.”
Trump has called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers.” But not Colonel Krugman. He is a man of conscience who gave up everything to defend the truth.
This is what courage looks like.
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