'The President threw us under the bus': Trump's intelligence chief blames him for failing to call up

[Klaralven]

'The President threw us under the bus': Trump's intelligence chief blames him for failing to call up the National Guard - as Defense Secretary says the president told him 10,000 soldiers would be needed the night before, but then failed to activate them

Christopher Miller, Trump's Secretary of Defense, has spoken to Vanity Fair
In a remarkably candid interview he told how he 'cannot wait' to quit his job
He said that Trump on January 5 said they needed 10,000 troops in DC
Trump then failed to order the forces, despite Miller telling him it was necessary
Miller said: 'You know, someone's going to have to ask for it'
Miller pushed back against accusations that the Pentagon was slow to respond
Head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Ezra Cohen attacked Trump for the riot
Cohen said that the president 'threw us under the bus' with his stirring the mob

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9178271/The-President-threw-bus-Trumps-intel-chief-blames-failing-call-Guard.html

[efhmc]

1. How could anyone who can read, write, think and talk ever think that DJT

would do the right thing?

[Hoyt]

2. At that point, Miller should have called Guard up himself. Of course, if the Capitol

attack were stopped, no one would know the actual results. When the call went out on the 6th, it would have been obvious though.

[Klaralven]

6. 1/6 was a Perfect Day

The speeches were incendiary and obvious enough to motivate the mob and alarm the public.

The mob was big enough and violent enough to overwhelm the police and breach the capitol.

The death, destruction, and declamations were publicized enough to shock Congress and the public.

On the other hand, it wasn't great enough to jeopardize the government.

It was a damp squib the produced the opposite of the intended effect.

[Thekaspervote]

3. Republicans in action! Poor choices from presidents to cabinet picks and appointees

[Hekate]

4. Chris Miller is one angry man. Says he can hardly wait to go before the Senate....

...” and have that conversation.”

I read most of the Daily Mail article, but it was quite a chore getting past the ads. At the bottom they linked to the original Vanity Fair article, so I saved that one as a pdf to read later.

The things he has to say about the Pentagon can be summed up in his phrase “it is fucking rotten.” My gods is he angry.

[uponit7771]

5. damn, Trump left such a shit sandwich ... I pray we can make him choke on it

[lanlady]

7. What a first-class clown this Chris Miller is

I read the Vanity Fair interview and it made me sick to my stomach. Miller talks like a high school kid, tossing "I'm likes" into every other sentence. It's deeply shocking and disturbing to think that such a person was in charge of the mightiest Armed Forces the world has every seen for even a nanosecond. And this Ezra Cohen, who's barely out of his 20s, playing at being a Pentagon senior official and crisscrossing the country on a government jet with the Acting Secretary of Juvenile. And Kash Patel, I won't even go there because my blood pressure will hit the ceiling. I can only imagine what the military brass inside the building thought of this crew. What a disgrace to our country.