By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-24 21:02:10 | Updated at 2024-09-30 19:28:12
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Bombshell transcripts: Trump urged use of troops to protect Capitol on Jan. 6 , but was rebuffed
Just the News ^ | September 23, 2024 11:00pm | John Solomon
Posted on 09/24/2024 1:52:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Then-President Donald Trump gave clear instructions to Pentagon brass days before the Jan. 6 riots to “do whatever it takes” to keep the U.S. Capitol safe, including deploying National Guard or active-duty troops, but top officials did not comply because of political concerns, according to transcripts of bombshell interviews conducted by the Defense Department's chief watchdog that shine new light on government disfunction ahead of the historic tragedy.
Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff, confirmed to the Pentagon inspector general three years ago that during a Jan. 3, 2021, Oval Office meeting Trump pre-approved the use of National Guard or active duty troops to keep peace in the nation’s capital on the day Congress was to certify the results of the 2020 election.
Milley's interviews were among several key to transcripts obtained by House Administration Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., and shared with Just the News.
“The President just says, ‘Hey look at this. It’s going to be a large amount of protesters come in here on the 6th, and make sure that you have sufficient National Guard or Soldiers to make sure it’s a safe event,’” Milley told the inspector general in one of two interviews he did in spring 2021 during a probe of the Pentagon’s response to Jan. 6.
Milley said then-Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, himself a former general, assured Trump there was an adequate safety plan for Pentagon assistance to Washington, D.C. “Miller responds by saying, ‘Hey, we’ve got a plan, and we’ve got it covered.’ And that’s about it,” Milley recalled.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jan6; johnsolomon
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Well someone lied to the world for years.......
2 posted on 09/24/2024 1:53:52 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Surely they’ll point this out in Corporate Media. /s
3 posted on 09/24/2024 1:54:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
That can’t be right...
That would destroy the entire insurrection narrative.
No, that can’t be right....
4 posted on 09/24/2024 1:55:02 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Is there any way to take away this bag of crap’s pension for dereliction of duty?
5 posted on 09/24/2024 1:55:05 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
This story was on Glenn Beck Friday, September 20, 2024.
“It probably will be ignored on all the mainstream media.”
True.
6 posted on 09/24/2024 1:55:36 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
To: dfwgator
Surely they’ll point this out in Corporate Media. /s
Exactly! 90+% of the people will never hear about this.
7 posted on 09/24/2024 1:57:44 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
To: CatOwner
Milley should see a firing squad.
Pelosi a jail cell.
8 posted on 09/24/2024 2:01:55 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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