Missouri Official Meant ‘No Ill Intent’ When She Called For Military Coup

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A Republican Missouri official said that she meant “no ill intent” toward President Obama when she asked on her Facebook page if the U.S. military was able to oust the president.

In a Facebook post last week, Jefferson County Recorder of Deeds Debbie Dunnegan referred to Obama as “our domestic enemy,” according to a screenshot published by Progress Missouri.

“I have a question for all my friends who have served or are currently serving in our military … having not put on a uniform nor taken any type military oath, there has to be something that I am just not aware of. But I cannot and do not understand why no action is being taken against our domestic enemy. I know he is supposedly the commander in chief, but the constitution gives you the authority,” she wrote in the post. “What am I missing? Thank you for your bravery and may God keep you safe.”

Dunnegan, who is up for re-election in November, said that her question was taken out of context, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

“Something innocent and simple got twisted into a disaster because it’s an election,” she said. “I meant no ill intent toward the president. I meant no ill intent toward anybody.”

Her Facebook account is private, but Dunnegan said she has not deleted the post and doesn’t seem worried how it might impact her re-election bid.

“I think it could hurt it as much as it could help it,” she said.

Correction: This post originally stated that Dunnegan is a lawmaker. She is the Jefferson County Recorder of Deeds.

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  1. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    Look into my dead lifeless eyes and I will reveal to you the depths of my stupidity.

  2. Wow, that’s not treasonous at all.

  3. Avatar for xyxox xyxox says:

    Because demanding the military overthrow our constitutional form of government, which immediately establishes a military dictatorship, has no “ill intent” whatsoever.

  4. Yes, the Constitution specifically gives the military the authority to overthrow the government. It’s right there in the document, isn’t it? Article 8- Military Coups.

  5. Right…does this twit know what a military coup is and how they’re accomplished or is she admitting she doesn’t and was just mindlessly parroting something she heard at the weekly Klan meeting? What she really meant, once you strip away any and all sophistry, etc., is the following: “OMG GET THAT FUCKING N-BOMB OUT OF MY WHITE HOUSE!!!”

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