Insurrection Timeline - First the Coup and Then the Cover-Up
The Department of Defenses January 8, 2021 press release purports to memorialize the planning and execution timeline of the deadly insurrection that it calls the January 6, 2021 First Amendment Protests in Washington, DC.*
The memos minute-by-minute account creates a false illusion of transparency. In truth, its most noteworthy aspects are the omission of Trumps central role in the insurrection and the effort to shift blame away from Trump and his new Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.
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By November 9, every news organization declared that former Vice President Joe Biden had won the election. On that day, Trump fired Acting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and replaced him with Miller, an Army retiree who worked for a defense contractor until Trump tapped him as his assistant in 2018. Millers promotion began a departmental regime change that embedded three fierce Trump loyalists as top Defense Department officials: Kash Patel (former aide to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA)), retired army Gen. Anthony Tata (pro-Trump Fox News pundit) and Ezra Cohen-Watnick (former assistant to Trumps first national security adviser, Mike Flynn).
At such a late date in Trumps presidency, many asked why the shake-up at the Department of Defense? We may be learning the answer.
https://billmoyers.com/story/insurrection-timeline-first-the-coup-and-then-the-cover-up/