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On 2024-02-13 19:24, AlleyCat wrote:
May 12 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump wanted National Guard troops in Washington to protect his supporters at a Jan. 6 rally that ended with them attacking the U.S. Capitol, leaving five dead, Trump's former Pentagon chief testified on Wednesday.
Former Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller told a House of Representatives panel that he spoke with Trump on Jan. 3, three days before the
now-former president's fiery speech that preceded the violence and led to his second impeachment.
According to Miller's testimony, Trump asked during that meeting whether the District of Columbia's mayor had requested National Guard troops for Jan. 6, the day Congress was to ratify Joe Biden's presidential election victory. Trump told Miller to "fill" the request, the former defense secretary testified. Miller said Trump told him: "Do whatever is necessary to protect demonstrators that were executing their constitutionally protected rights."
That request was for 340 National Guard...
...to do traffic control:
'Q So, in your view, the 340 D.C. National Guard that had been
authorized, explain to me what their role would be in a worst case.
A [Miller] The purpose of that request, as relayed from Mayor Bowser,
was to take -- make sure that sworn law enforcement officers would be
available to move throughout the city because we expected fighting cells
-- as Isaid earlier, we expected fighting cells to move out within the
city, basically away from law enforcement.
My understanding was that they would have essentially mobile elements of
law enforcement. So the idea was to take 300 -- with the National Guard
to do the traffic control points, you can take, you know, law
enforcement officers from standing around saying, don't cross the street
here or whatever the case may be, they could actually be performing law enforcement functions as opposed to crowd control functions, which the'
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You lose... ...again.
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