10/19/2025
BREAKINGđ¨ In solidarity with protestors, a 24-year Marine Corps vet, just RESIGNED. His letter is INSPIRING đ
Colonel Doug Krugman reminded us of Trumpâs chilling words to senior military leaders: âIf you donât like what Iâm saying, you can leave the room, of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.â For Krugman, that wasnât leadership. It was a threat to everything he had sworn to defend.
âI voluntarily give up my rank as the president suggested, but the future of our country is more important than any individualâs career, wealth, or power. I have no regrets about my decision. I have given up the service I loved for the freedom to do the right thing, the freedom to speak my mind, and the freedom to speak in defense of our country.â
Krugman said he could no longer wear the uniform for a president who demanded loyalty to himself over country. âI gave up my career out of concern for our countryâs future,â he wrote. âI risked my life for the Constitution, serving as an infantry officer in two wars. I watched Marines die for it.â Those are not words of rebellion. They are words of devotion to the republic.
As he reflected on the presidents heâd served under, Krugmanâs heartbreak deepened. âNo commander in chief is perfect,â he said. âBut I continued to serve because I believed our presidents took their oaths seriously. With President Trump, I no longer believe that.â
That loss of faith wasnât political. It was moral.
Then came the moment that shattered his trust completely. âHis actions became increasingly difficult to justify,â Krugman wrote, pointing to January 6 as the breaking point. âI hoped he had learned from those errors, but I realized he had not. I could not swear without reservation to follow a commander in chief who seemed so willing to disregard the Constitution.â
What followed was an indictment of Trumpâs moral collapse. âThe Constitution gives the president the power to pardon,â Krugman wrote, âbut pardoning roughly 1,600 of those who tried to violently overthrow the results of an election didnât help defend the Constitution. Denying refuge to Afghans who risked their lives to support us was immoral. Breaking promises our country has made, including trade agreements President Trump made himself, is immoral. These are not the kinds of actions Iâm willing to risk my life to defend.â
From morality to legality, Krugmanâs warning only grew sharper. âWhen asked in May if he had to uphold the Constitution as president, the first words out of his mouth were âI donât know.ââ
For Krugman, that ignorance wasnât just stunning. It was unforgivable. A president who doesnât understand the Constitution has no right to command those who die for it.
Inside the military, the consequences were already spreading. âWhen the presidentâs orders push or cross legal limits and put commanders in impossible situations, cohesion within our military is at risk,â Krugman said. âEvery dubious basis he gives for an order creates more room for doubt, more threats to our unity.â
And then came Trumpâs most dangerous words yet, his call to wage âa war from within.â Krugman wrote, âIt wasnât clear if he was referring to actual crime or to political criticism of him. In either case, military force is not the answer.â
For a lifelong Marine, hearing the president blur the line between enemy and citizen was intolerable.
At his core, Krugman believes Trump is unraveling the foundation of the nation itself. âThis president acts as though one election makes 236 years of constitutional order irrelevant,â he wrote. âInstead of working within the Constitution, he is testing how far he can ignore it.â
Trump once called fallen soldiers âsuckersâ and âlosers.â But Colonel Krugman is neither. He is a man of conscience who gave up everything to defend the truth.
THIS is what courage looks like.
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