Trump team wanted tanks at inaugural parade

[SummerSnow]

Trump Team Asked About ‘Military Tactical Vehicles’ For Inaugural Parade: Emails

“Such support would be out of guidelines,” one Pentagon official wrote.


By Jessica Schulberg

WASHINGTON ― The month after Donald Trump won the presidential election, his staff asked the Pentagon to send photographs of military tactical vehicles that he could include in his inaugural parade, emails obtained by The Huffington Post show.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee “is seriously considering adding military vehicles to the Inaugural Parade,” a Pentagon official wrote in an internal email dated Dec. 13, 2016. “The conversation started as ‘Can you send us some pictures of military vehicles we could add to the parade,’” the official wrote.

The emails, which were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, corroborate HuffPost’s January report that Trump, who has spoken favorably of public displays of military prowess, looked into deploying heavy military equipment in his inaugural parade. Asked in December about plans to use military equipment during the occasion, a Trump aide refused to address the matter on the record but offered an incredulous off-the-record denial. It’s not clear whether the aide was aware of the conversations referenced in the Pentagon emails, and he did not respond to a request for an explanation.

more at link and copy of email.....http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/emails-trump-military-vehicles-inaugural-parade_us_58d094d1e4b00705db5223ed?&

[spanone]

1. dictators like that show of power. dictator don.

[Demsrule86]

2. Trump is a fucking fascist. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

3. I'll Bet Streets and San Were Really Excited. . .

. . .about the possibility of tanks running on roads intended for small vehicular traffic.

[HipChick]

4. Streets of DC would have never held up...

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Thinking The Same, HC

They don't even allow heavy trucks let alone 45 ton tanks. But, you know, there is something funny about the idea of a inaugural parade having heavy military hardware and then driving by empty bleachers.

[Chiyo-chichi]

5. Oh, an "an incredulous off-the-record denial."

In other words, an off-the-record LIE, as these emails prove.

I guess it's a refreshing change from the usual straight up on-the-record lie.