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On 2024-02-13 09:12, AlleyCat wrote:

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 08:19:43 -0800, Alan says...

"The President of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the
District of Columbia National Guard."

Refutation:

Did he not "request" the guard?

Why yes... yes, he did.

Why no. No he didn't.

Gen. Kellogg: Trump Did Request National Guard Troops on Jan. 6th; Asks Congress To Release His Testimony

"Keith Kellogg, Pence’s national security adviser who was also with
Trump that day, testified that he never heard the former President ask
for the National Guard or a law enforcement response.

Kellogg also reaffirmed that he would have been aware if Trump had made
such an ask.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley told the House Select
Committee that he was astonished by the fact that he never heard from
Trump as the Capitol attack was unfolding – suggesting his failure to
act amounted to an abdication of his duties as commander in chief,
according to previously unseen video from his close-door deposition.

“You know, you’re the Commander in Chief. You’ve got an assault going on on the Capitol of the United States of America and there’s nothing? No
call? Nothing? Zero?” he said in the clip."

The commander of the Washington, DC, National Guard, Major Gen. William Walker,
"strongly" considered deploying troops to the US Capitol on the afternoon of January 6, 2021, WITHOUT APPROVAL FROM HIS SUPERIORS even if it meant he would
have to resign the next day, according to the final report from the House January 6 select committee.

His ultimate superior being then president, Donald Trump,
commander-in-chief of the DC National Guard.

"Major General Walker himself understood HE HAD TO WAIT FOR APPROVAL FROM SECRETARY (RYAN) MCCARTHY to deploy his forces. But as he waited on that video
call for hours, he did strongly consider sending them anyway," the report says.
"He turned to his lawyer and said, 'Hey, you know what? You know, we're going to go, and I'm just going to shoulder the responsibility.'"

ARMY SECRETARY Ryan McCarthy. Was Trump THE person to give HIM the order? No one else?

Simply put, the National Guard only shows up to D.C. when they've been invited,
and THE CAPITOL POLICE DID NOT EXTEND THAT INVITATION until after the breach, according to a source with knowledge of the process, who was not authorized to
speak about it on the record.

Got a cite for that, do you?

You know, if you took the 30 seconds it takes me to find this shit, and stop thinking your unclever and unfunny remarks make a fucking difference, maybe we
wouldn't laugh at you as much.

And yet you provide no references...

WAS Trump THE only one who could order the Guard in?

Ultimately, they are under is command.

So, if YOU expected Trump to be in the field and command every military operation, so too, shouldn't have Obama?

"In the field"? Where did I so much as imply that, loser?

So... how many of these did Obama go out in the battlefield and command?

Why is going to the battlefield suddenly a requirement?

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