A BOMBSHELL REPORT has come out of the Committee on House Administration, specifically from a subcommittee on oversight: President Trump did in fact urge General Milley (then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the Armed Forces) to use whatever means necessary to safeguard the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
“There’s going to be a large amount of protesters here on the 6th, make sure that you have sufficient National Guard or Soldiers to make sure it’s a safe event.”
“Hey, I don’t care if you use Guard, or Soldiers, active duty Soldiers, do whatever you have to do. Just make sure it’s safe.”
Those were the words of President Trump on January 3rd according to transcripts which include General Milley’s testimony about the events leading up to the January 6th protests.
Before we go any deeper, I would like to draw your attention to what former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said just over a year ago in a conversation with Tucker Carlson about what happened on Jan 6, 2021. (THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT BIT OF INFORMATION THAT HELPS PUT THIS ALL INTO CONTEXT.)
BREAKING: Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund suggests to Tucker Carlson that General Milley and Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller were involved in a coverup on January 6th.
Well well well…
Sund reveals that military leaders were so worried about January 6th that… pic.twitter.com/ZR1zOTF430
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 11, 2023
He is suggesting outright, that from his perspective, General Milley and Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller were involved in a coverup to implicate President Trump. I highly suspect he was spot on after seeing these bombshell statements in testimony that has just now come to light (because it was kept from us!).
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Well well … what do we have here.
In new transcripts, General Milley confirms that days before January 6, President Trump requested “sufficient National Guard or Soldiers to make sure it’s a safe event.”
Milley & others, including Pelosi, “unnecessarily delayed the DC… pic.twitter.com/IpHC5SjWF1
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) September 20, 2024
According to the report, not only did President Trump make the National Guard available and urge the Joint Chiefs to have them ready for the expected protests 3 days before January 6th, but those same transcripts seem to show that his directions were intentionally ignored!
According to the report released by the committee, President Trump had meetings with Pentagon leadership during which he urged them to protect both lives and property during the expected demonstrations:
Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (GA-11) revealed that days before January 6, 2021, President Trump met with senior Pentagon leaders urging them to do their jobs to protect lives and property. The transcripts released show Trump gave senior Pentagon leadership directives to keep January 6 peaceful – including using the National Guard – which the Pentagon leaders ignored. This revelation directly contradicts the conclusions drawn in the flawed DoD IG reporton January 6, 2021.
In response to these revelations, Chairman Loudermilk released the following statement:
“Pentagon leadership prioritized concerns of optics over their duty to protect lives,” said Chairman Loudermilk. “President Trump met with senior Pentagon leaders and directed them to make sure any events on January 6, 2021 were safe. It is very concerning that these Senior Pentagon officials ignored President Trump’s guidance AND misled Congressional Leaders to believe they were doing their job, when they were not. The DoD IG’s report is fundamentally flawed. It does not draw conclusions from the interviews they conducted, but pushes a narrative to keep their hands clean. We have many questions for them, and we will continue to dig until we are satisfied the American people know the truth.”
The following is the overview sheet put out by the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, which was released by the chairman of the subcommittee, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga).
According to Natural News, Rep Loudermilk released the information publicly because he says it proves that President Trump did in fact offer the National Guard troops as he has repeatedly said, which were subsequently turned down:
In the final report of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol, it claimed that it found no evidence supporting the idea that former President Donald Trump ordered 10,000 troops to be ready for Jan. 6, 2021. However, a previously hidden transcript has surfaced of an interview conducted by the U.S. House of Representatives panel that researched the breach of the U.S. Capitol that directly undermines the committee’s claim.
ADVERTISEMENTWhite House deputy chief of staff (during the breach) Anthony Ornato told the committee that he overheard then chief of staff Mark Meadows on the phone with Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser. According to the transcript, Meadows wanted to ensure the mayor “had everything she needed.”
According to the testimony, Meadows “wanted to know if she needed any more guardsmen.” And I remember the number 10,000 coming up of, “The president wants to make sure that you have enough.’ You know, ‘He is willing to ask for 10,000.’ I remember that number. Now that you said it, it reminded me of it.” Bowser said “She was all set,” Ornato recalled.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who released the transcript, said that the former J6 Select Committee withheld Ornato’s critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their pre-determined narrative. “Ornato’s testimony proves what Meadows has said all along; President Trump did offer 10,000 National Guard troops to secure the U.S. Capitol, which was turned down,” Loudermilk, who is the chairman of the House Administration Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight, further stated.
This transcript is replete with relative testimony that completely contradicts the official narrative, which the J6 Select Committee seemed to be determined to make stick. As Rep. Loudermilk pointed out, the problem with that official narrative is that it wasn’t accurate — and numerous relevant individual’s testimony corroborate President Trump’s account, yet was withheld from the public!
The article referenced above continues with details regarding President Trump’s consistency in insisting that he did, in fact, instruct that National Guard troops be made ready for the expected January 6th protests:
Trump, meanwhile, confirmed the direct order on Fox News. He said he definitely gave the number of 10,000 National Guardsmen and said “I think you should have 10,000 of the National Guard ready.” Christopher C. Miller, former acting secretary of defense, in a meeting on Jan. 5, 2021, told Trump that the Department of Defense was going to provide any number of Guard personnel that Washington officials requested. Trump reportedly replied: “You’re going to need 10,000 people.” But Miller told the select committee that he “never … knew of any plans of that nature.” “There was no direct, there was no order from the president,” he later added. (emphasis added.)
How many of you can remember watching a former President testify before a Congressional hearing, asking for clarification on “the definition of ‘is’ “. That’s pretty much how this feels to me. There was no order from the President? What do you call it when the President REPEATEDLY tells the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to make ready to use National Guard, ETC… “to make sure it’s safe”. That… is an order. And anyone at that level that is trying to say otherwise is simply looking to justify their intentional disregard of the President’s instructions.
And Christopher Miller, the Acting Secretary of Defense at the time said, according to the report put out by Rep. Loudermilk: “The President commented that they were going to need 10,000 troops the following day… I interpreted it as a bit of presidential banter or President Trump banter that you all are familiar with, and in no way, shape, or form did I interpret that as an order or direction.”
How in the world is that okay? Surely that does not pass muster for an Acting Secretary of Defense when the Commander in Chief is ACTIVELY TELLING YOU that you are going to need 10,000 troops the following day! How big of a setup was this, after all!?
Miller also stated that there was no way he was going to put National Guard troops in the Capitol SPECIFICALLY because he thought President Trump was going to do so, and “invoke the Insurrection Act to politicize the military in an anti-democratic manner”.
So, let me get this straight. You ignore the directions of the Commander-in-Chief to use the armed forces at your disposal, because you’re afraid HE is going to act in an anti-democratic manner by invoking the Insurrection Act — and then when his OPPONENTS use the circumstances that YOUR DISREGARD OF TRUMP’S ORDERS CAUSED to actually use the Insurrection Act against President Trump… you go along with the J6 Committee’s role in covering it up! This just gets worse and worse!
Here is more of the timeline as released by Rep. Loudermilk today, included in the subcommittee documents:
On January 6, 2021, the outer perimeter on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol was breached by rioters at 12:53pm. The DCNG arrived five hours later. Click here to view the timeline.
These transcripts prove President Trump’s senior Pentagon leaders were focused on OPTICS, instead of doing their job, as the Capitol was breached:
Miller: “There was absolutely – there is absolutely no way I was putting U.S. military forces at the Capitol, period.”
Director of the Army Staff, Lieutenant General Walter Piatt: “Was optics a concern for us as we prepared to use soldiers downtown in Washington D.C? Absolutely.”
As “optics” concerns were being discussed and Secretary McCarthy claims he was ‘developing a plan’, the DCNG was ready to move, less than 2 miles from the Capitol – awaiting Secretary McCarthy’s authorization.
Walker’s General Counsel, Colonel Earl Matthews: “We were seeing the Congress of the United States being overrun, and the Guard – and the Capitol Police, the MPD, they need help. We had people at the D.C. Armory who are able to help, and they’re not moving. They’re not allowed to move.”
DCNG Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks: “They were ready to go, and they just couldn’t understand why they were still sitting there. Literally sitting on a bus, just waiting to drive to the Capitol and do the best they could do to support Capitol Police.”
At 3:04pm, Miller provided verbal approval to Secretary McCarthy for immediate deployment of the DCNG. What was Secretary McCarthy doing between receiving this approval, and 5:08pm, when the order eventually reaches the D.C. National Guard? Why didn’t he communicate this approval for a full two hours?
ADVERTISEMENTAt 3:18pm, Secretary McCarthy told Congressional Democrat Leadership that the DC National Guard had the “green light” and “is moving”. Two hours would pass before Secretary McCarthy’s deployment order would ACTUALLY be communicated to the DCNG.
While parts of the testimony included in these transcripts have been seen before, the relevant parts that were kept back from the public are just now coming to light because of Rep. Loudermilk’s release of the information.
This is a developing story, and there is sure to be fallout as different parties respond; in terms of legality relative to ongoing investigations, but also in terms of the direct impact on the election that is mere weeks away, and early voting already underway.
We will bring you more as it becomes available.
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