10,000 National Guard troops
Here’s a report that, in advance of January 6, Trump suggested the deployment of 10,000 National Guard troops:
Former President Donald Trump offered to deploy “as many as 10,000 National Guard troops,” ahead of Jan. 6 to support law enforcement, according to his one-time White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Meadows, during an interview on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo,” said that in January and “throughout the summer … the president was very vocal in making sure that we had plenty of National Guard, plenty of additional support because he supports our rule of law and supports our law enforcement and offered additional help.”
He added, “Even in January, that was a given, as many as 10,000 National Guard troops were told to be on the ready by the Secretary of Defense. That was a direct order from President Trump and yet here is what we see, all kinds of blame going around but yet not a whole lot of accountability. That accountability needs to rest with where it ultimately should be and that’s on Capitol Hill.”…
…I can tell you [the Capitol Police] do a tremendous job, but they need to be empowered to do that job, and there were plenty of assets there to assist them in their efforts. And some of those decisions weren’t made appropriately, in my opinion, and those decisions did not come from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it came from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.”
You might think, “Wow, that’s an important story.” But this statement by Meadows seems to only be reported by sources on the right such as this one. Whether or not it’s a true account, what he said is certainly newsworthy. But apparently the left doesn’t think America should even hear it – at least, I could find nothing about it there.
Funny thing; those troops – and more – somehow managed to appear for Biden’s inauguration.
So, doesn’t the SecDef then need to ask the Governors? And doesn’t DC have to consent?
I would hope Trump’s lawyers would put on this evidence, but who knows.
The thing we have learned is that the Fake News refuses to report the news. I saw on Steve Bannon’s War Room Jim Hoeft (sp) from Gateway Pundit. He says he now has proof of two vans pulling into the voting counting building early in the morning of the day after Election.
Where has the FBI been in this entire matter? And Bill Barr?
The cost of the recent grotesque and unnecessary militarization of DC will exceed half a billion dollars, as our southern border is being largely undefended with its protection deliberately under-funded, while at the same time some U.S. forces have just been deployed into Syria for no good reason, and while the new absurdly unqualified Secretary of Defense seems to be mostly concerned with climate change, transgenderism, and hunting for evil Trump-supporters in the military. The Chinese must be laughing at our stupidity.
Last weekend Antifa marched in the streets of DC. No arrests.
Cornhead: “Last weekend Antifa marched in the streets of DC. ”
Yep, and they promised to burn DC to the ground if they don’t get what they want. What do they want? Defund the police. Be interesting to see how Beijing Biden handles this one.
Just one more straw upon the camel’s back.
However, Antifa burning down DC would unarguably be a net positive.
Well some parts of D.
C. were burned down in 1968. Burn blocks better? Georgetown and NW this time, with Arlington and Montgommery County would be a good start?
Troops in DC? At an estimated cost of nearly half a billion dollars (450 or 485 millions)?
Geoffrey on the vans with ballots in Atlanta? “Where has the FBI been in this entire matter? And Bill Barr?”
Patrick Byrne confirms that extra blank imported Chinese printed ballots were found in Fulton, Co. CoS Mark Meadows stopped the investigation.
He also adds that a Deep State threat to President Trump and possibly a family member was circulating among those who should know (See my addition to Time mag thread for more and link).
Lots of bad stuff in DC around, still.
Plus, CNN, MSNBC, and other sources say Trump supported should “be droned” to death for their heresy? Or other violent dispatch? Anyone confirm this?
Cornhead on Antifa in DC? Yeah – and threatening to burn it down if they don’t get what they want. Night of Long Knives coming next year? Or 2024?
Om:
Now you’re talking.
Threaten the Kennedy Center with an unplanned thermal excursion and see how seriously Nancy Pelosi takes it? Such would be the cause for a third impeachment.
Somewhat off topic but the idea that the Capitol Police would need outside help for anything short of an actual armed insurrection is stupid. They have 2,300 uniformed and non-uniformed employees, and an annual budget of $465 million. They guard the capitol, the library of congress and six congressional office buildings (which is way too much office space, but that’s a topic for another day). Its about four city blocks altogether. To put that in perspective, the DC Police have 4,400 employees and a budget of $512 million. We don’t need to be dragging Guardsmen away from their families for a month to help these people.
This fits with a Vanity Fair hit piece.
On the evening of January 5—the night before a white supremacist mob stormed Capitol Hill in a siege that would leave five dead—the acting secretary of defense, Christopher Miller, was at the White House with his chief of staff, Kash Patel. They were meeting with President Trump on “an Iran issue,” Miller told me. But then the conversation switched gears. The president, Miller recalled, asked how many troops the Pentagon planned to turn out the following day. “We’re like, ‘We’re going to provide any National Guard support that the District requests,’” Miller responded. “And [Trump] goes, ‘You’re going to need 10,000 people.’ No, I’m not talking bullshit. He said that. And we’re like, ‘Maybe. But you know, someone’s going to have to ask for it.’” At that point Miller remembered the president telling him, “‘You do what you need to do. You do what you need to do.’ He said, ‘You’re going to need 10,000.’ That’s what he said. Swear to God.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/embedding-with-pentagon-leadership-in-trumps-chaotic-last-week
There is a tidbit deep in the article that should be concerning for every American.
According to Ciralsky, the Defense Department is so compartmentalized that information was kept from the Trump administration.
…Cohen had told me earlier. He said he and others had discovered that the Joint Chiefs were creating their own “security compartments” containing operational planning details “for the express purpose of hiding key information from career civilian and political leaders in the Pentagon”—up to and including the secretary of Defense. Talk about a deep state. “That means that policymakers were basing their decisions on partial information. It’s very dangerous and irresponsible, and that’s something I’ve actually highlighted in my conversations with [Biden’s] transition team.” I’ll admit it sounded loopy. To me it had all the elements of a Trump fever dream: The military and intelligence establishment was somehow scheming against the renegades. That is, until two other senior national security officials—with Miller and company—confirmed Cohen’s assertion.
“The entire system,” Miller stated, “the intelligence community [included], is complicit in setting up all these compartments—so that only very select people actually have perspective and access to the entire picture. And then your question is, ‘Well, who are these people that have the complete picture?’ I felt like I finally did as acting SECDEF—to a point. I’m sure there’s still some stuff that was being compartmented. But I don’t know that for a fact.”
baltimoron:
That might be the case if the Capitol Police had been deployed in the numbers necessary. From everything I’ve read, it wasn’t even close to that. Also, from what I’ve read, the president is not in charge of ordering the Capitol Police.
Can you imagine Trump calling out 10,000 National Guards just before the election.
The Democrats would have howled with self-righteous rage.
The media would have had an expletive-filled field day.
“Proof” of the Trumpian coup, etc., etc.
(As if any proof were needed, of course…)
The deck is stacked. It started in 2009; and given the (non-existent) sense of “morals”, “ethics” and/or “shame” of the Democratic Party and the media, there’s every reason for it to continue.
neo:
Yes, the capitol police answer to congress. I think the idea is that (in theory) the legislative branch can protect itself in case they’re on bad terms with the executive. The Supreme Court also has its own police force for the same reason.
My point was that the Capitol Police have the resources of a big city police department. They shouldn’t need outside help. The fact that they are incompetent, even by government standards, doesn’t change that. The Army should have told them to get their house in order before asking for favors from someone else.
In light of recent weeks and months developments, I’m reading or re-reading in slow detail Angelo Codevilla’s majesterial thought piece, “ Clarity in Trump’s Wake; The United States of America is now a classic oligarchy.”
https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/19/clarity-in-trumps-wake/
Incompetence? Yes. But worse, the rogue and destructive nature of our Ruling Class is a theme evident on Cap Hill, here and on January 6th. As well as for decades in Codevilla’s eyes.
He believes they are not long in secure authority. And that their ongoing, persistent evils will shape the extent of violence of the coming reaction defeating them.
My sense here at Neo’s place is that commenter Geoffrey Britain is channeling Codevilla very adeptly.
Codevillain insights prompt me to think that We need a programmatically minded manifesto, blending Trumpian policies (as articulated by Victor Davis Hansen, for example), coupled with a deeper, broader, much more fundamental political reform agenda.
And behind this Manifesto, the Republicrats could be bent to the popular will.
A central demand must be defunding The Privileged Incompetents, wherever we find them!