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(9,287 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,286 posts)Only one other person could demand that he write this memo....
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Phoenix61
(16,992 posts)It didnt make sense that TFG would appoint someone after he lost the election. Looking back it makes a lot of sense.
It was part of the plan.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)mia
(8,358 posts)Christopher Miller, former acting secretary of defense, defended his response to the Capitol riot before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. He pushed back on beliefs that there were delays in the deployment of federal resources and told legislators he filled the request he received for National Guard members....
It took more than three hours for National Guardsmen to be deployed to the Capitol, which frustrated Major General William Walker, commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard. Walker told Congress in March that he believed deploying the National Guard sooner "would have made a difference" because they could have helped "extend the perimeter and push back the crowd."
...While he spoke to Trump ahead of the riot, Miller told the committee he didn't communicate with the former president as the riot unfolded. He said he "didn't need to" because he had the necessary authority and "knew what had to happen."
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-told-christopher-miller-do-whatever-necessary-protect-demonstrators-ahead-capitol-riot-1590993
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,938 posts)I expect Esper was deemed "not reliable" and fired (told to resign) after tRump Gang / RepubliCON planning got underway to corrupt the post-election process to void tRump's loss.
Esper had refused to get the military involved in Black Lives Matter protests in June (or July?) 2020. That's when tRump got deputized sympathetic Fed goons on the streets by other means and they started snatching people in a terroristic, fascist way.
Miller is a toady who would do the opposite for the opposite: hold back the Nat Guard against MAGAt protests.
liberalla
(9,221 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,938 posts)Grumpy Old Guy
(3,155 posts)mrsadm
(1,198 posts)marble falls
(56,996 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,366 posts)the cosmos will implode.
marble falls
(56,996 posts)... the barbarians take office. We really don't want to be seen as greasing the skids of justice.
I'm glad you see it the way I do. We're in the minority.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,366 posts)marble falls
(56,996 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...the war will be over.
Skittles
(153,104 posts)ya know?
NoMoreRepugs
(9,366 posts)Skittles
(153,104 posts)remember how Bush INC was held responsible for lying their way into a war? OH WAIT
MagickMuffin
(15,925 posts)issued the Order to stand down and make sure the defending Officers had NO reinforcements.
mia
(8,358 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)And might I add, that Twit post is the longest and most convoluted run-on sentence I've seen in a long while.