Top officials feared Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act to prevent the transfer of power

[Joinfortmill]

https://www.justsecurity.org/79623/crisis-of-command-the-pentagon-the-president-and-january-6/

Crisis of Command: The Pentagon, The President, and January 6

Milley, according to multiple reports, “feared it was Trump’s ‘Reichstag moment,’ in which, like Adolf Hitler in 1933, he would manufacture a crisis in order to swoop in and rescue the nation from it.”

Miller does not specify who held the fears that Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act, and he wasn’t asked by Congress. However, it’s now clear that such concerns were shared by General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as former CIA Director and at the time Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Before Nov. 3, Milley and Pompeo confided in one another that they had a persistent worry Trump would try to use the military in an attempt to hold onto power if he lost the election, the Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reported. “This military’s not going to be used,” Milley assured Pompeo.

[elleng]

1. Important, actually provides a rationale for the delay.

[msfiddlestix]

2. what do you mean, by "a rationale for delay"

delay for certifying elections?

[elleng]

3. for army providing assistance for safety in DC;

took HOURS.

[msfiddlestix]

4. Ok Gotcha. Yes it did, but there were additional roadblocks put in place by TFG

which I think has been reported out, learned in early term hearings

TFG should be hung for his traitorous actions he took just on that day alone.

[Progressive Jones]

5. If he had done such a thing, I would have hoped for some General(s)

to delete him on the spot.

[Joinfortmill]

6. 👍

[pecosbob]

7. And there were folks here at DU that said he might try this...

[UTUSN]

8. K & big R#5 for, I'll kick this forever

[Rustynaerduwell]

9. Trump did nothing for over three and a half hours.

Who doubts he was waiting for the opportunity to invoke. The opportunity just never was going to come, and he finally realized it.