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Thu Mar 4, 2021, 12:15 PM Mar 2021

Two Trump Pentagon officials blamed for poor reaction to Capitol attack [View all]

Witnesses told the hearing that a nearly three-and-a-half hour delay in deploying the national guard against the attack by Trump supporters was because deployment authority was held only by then-acting secretary of defense Christopher Miller and then-secretary of the army Ryan McCarthy, both political allies of the White House.

Washington's metropolitan national guard commander Major General William Walker said McCarthy had even reserved personal control over activating a "quick reaction force" that was on standby for violence.

The Trump Appointees were
- acting secretary of defense Christopher Miller
- secretary of the army Ryan McCarthy,

were the just incompetent or were they facilitating the insurrection?




https://www.rawstory.com/two-trump-pentagon-officials-blamed-for-poor-reaction-to-capitol/

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