• The Silent Insurrection: General Milley's Hand On January 6

    September 21, 2024
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    Authored by Haley McLean via Deaclassified with Julie Kelly,

    In the days and weeks leading up to January 6, the nation's highest-ranking military officer, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, was moving in lockstep with the political anxieties of top Democratic leaders.

    These Democrats grew anxious as over 140 House Republicans planned to contest the election results during the electoral college certification that day. Milley was then deeply engaged with a circle of confidants including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, among others—all of whom shared a unified disdain for President Donald Trump.

    At a House Oversight Committee hearing in April addressing the 3-hour and 19-minute delay in mobilizing the D.C. National Guard on January 6, Colonel Earl Matthews, one of four Department of Defense witnesses, testified about an “irrational” fear among a “clique” of senior military officers concerning the potential misuse of the National Guard by the president. He indicated that these concerns were influenced behind the scenes by Milley, who often made disparaging remarks about the president and regularly referred to his fear of a so-called potential “Reichstag moment...”

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    Kae Mechiso

    Looks like there was an insurrection on January 6, 2021, but it was not the Trump supporters, it was Pelosi, Milley and his senior officers.

    Freedom

    Might as well bring back Gen Alexander Haig at this rate. What a turd. Career general staff forget who they work for and look down on We the People with obvious disdain. Kinda like the way they look down on their own enlisted ranks. Lifers.

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