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On 2024-09-24 13:41, Mittens Romney wrote:
> Alan wrote:
>> Still no.
>>
>> That is a list of quotes
> 
> AGAIN...
> 
> GODDAMNED LIAR!

Still no.

That is a list of quotes, excerpted from full transcripts of interviews 
with those people.

> 
> 
> QUOTESGENERAL MARK MILLEY, CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF:“[January 3, 
> 2021] The President just says, ‘Hey, look at this. There’s going to be a 
> large amount ofprotesters here on the 6th, make sure that you have 
> sufficient National Guard or Soldiers to make sure it’s asafe event.’” 
> *“[POTUS said] ‘Hey, I don’t care if you use Guard, or Soldiers, active 
> duty Soldiers, do whatever you haveto do. Just make sure it’s safe.’” 
> *CHRISTOPHER MILLER, ACTING SECRETARY OF DEFENSE:“The President 
> commented that they were going to need 10,000 troops the following 
> day... I interpreted it asa bit of presidential banter or President 
> Trump banter that you all are familiar with, and in no way, shape, 
> orform did I interpret that as an order or direction.” *“[On January 6, 
> 2021] everyone was like, “Did you listen to the President’s speech?” I’m 
> like “The guy speaksfor 90 minutes it’s like Castro or something.” No, 
> I’ve got work to do.” *“I was cognizant of the fears that the President 
> would invoke the Insurrection Act to politicize the military inan anti- 
> democratic manner. And, just before the Electoral College certification, 
> 10 former Secretaries ofDefense signed an op-ed piece published in The 
> Washington Post warning of the dangers of politicizing andusing 
> inappropriately the military. No such thing was going to occur on my 
> watch.” *“There was absolutely -- there is absolutely no way I was 
> putting U.S. military forces at the Capitol,period.”*“The operational 
> plan was this, let’s take the D.C. National Guard, keep them away from 
> the Capitol.”*CHIEF STEVEN SUND, U.S. CAPITOL POLICE:“I’m making an 
> urgent request for the National Guard. We are being overrun. I gave a 
> quick rundown ofwhat we had going on and that officers out there are 
> fighting for their lives. We were about to be taken over.The 
> representative from the Secretary of the Army said, “I don’t like the 
> optics of National Guard standing in aline with the Capitol in the 
> background.”” *“I explained to them that the building is being breached. 
> I need their assistance immediately. He [GeneralPiatt] said, “My 
> recommendation to the Secretary of the Army is to not support the 
> request.” *Previously concealed by the Biden-Harris Administration’s 
> Department of Defense, the Subcommittee hasuncovered statements by key 
> personnel involved in the deployment of the D.C. National Guard to the 
> U.S.Capitol on January 6, 2021. These new transcripts indicate that 
> senior Pentagon officials unnecessarily delayedthe DC National Guard 
> response to the Capitol on January 6due to “optics” concerns.SEPT.16, 
> 2024CHAIRMAN BARRY LOUDERMILK@OVERSIGHTADMN@REPLOUDERMILKThe DoD IG 
> claims that the actions at the Pentagon were “reasonable in light of the 
> circumstances” at theCapitol on January 6, 2021. The IG also determined 
> that “DoD officials did not delay or obstruct theDoD’s response to the 
> [U.S. Capitol Police’s] [Request for Assistance] on January 6, 2021.”THE 
> TRANSCRIPTS REVEAL OTHERWISE.
> COMMANDING GENERAL WILLIAM WALKER, D.C. NATIONAL GUARD:“My thoughts are 
> that there has to be something else at play here. Why is there such a 
> concern aboutproximity to the Capitol? We hadn’t had that before.” 
> *“[General Piatt said] at 2:42pm “It would not be his best military 
> advice to send the National Guard to the U.S.Capitol at this 
> time....Military presence could make the situation worse and the optics 
> were bad.” *COLONEL EARL MATTHEWS, D.C. NATIONAL GUARD:“The D.C. Guard 
> could’ve gone in right away. But the Secretary of the Army did not give 
> us theapproval.”*“There was concern about being anywhere near the 
> Capitol because of perception that the military would beinvolved, that 
> there would be militarization of the electoral process.”*“We were seeing 
> the Congress of the United States being overrun, and the Guard -- and 
> the Capitol Police, theMPD need help. We had people at the D.C. Armory 
> who are able to help, and they’re not moving. And they’renot allowed to 
> move. They’re not allowed to go down there.” *“It’d be like, if there’s 
> a five-alarm fire and you’re telling a volunteer fire company, “Don’t go 
> respond to thefire. Go to trees and pull cats or dogs out of trees to 
> free up firemen to respond to the real fire.” I mean, it’sridiculous.” 
> *COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR MICHAEL BROOKS, D.C. NATIONAL GUARD:“They were 
> ready to go, and they just couldn’t understand why they were still 
> sitting there. Literally sittingon a bus, just waiting to drive to the 
> Capitol and do the best they could do to support Capitol Police.” 
> *“People were like, “Why weren’t you there?” We were. We were waiting.” 
> *“We repeatedly told them, “We know what we’re doing. We just need you 
> to give us the authorization” *BRIGADIER GENERAL AARON DEAN, ADJUTANT 
> GENERAL, D.C. NATIONAL GUARD:“I thought to myself, “Okay. I’m not sure 
> why we’re concerned about optics when it comes to, you know, savinglives 
> and preventing damage and loss of property, but okay.” *“The lull time 
> between that 2:30pm call and 5 o’clock, just nothing. It was like, 
> that’s a little odd -- very odd.It put us in a bad situation, because we 
> wanted to respond but we couldn’t. So we were just left there waitingon 
> word.” *GENERAL WALTER PIATT, DIRECTOR OF ARMY STAFF:“What we were 
> afraid of is that military assets would be employed without military 
> command, and thatweighed in heavily when forces were requested in 
> support of January 6.” *CHRISTOPHER RODRIGUEZ, D.C. HOMELAND SECURITY 
> AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT:“So it kind of shocked me, because we had a 
> situation where the Metropolitan Police Department had beenon the scene 
> at the Capitol for over an hour at that point, and we couldn’t get any 
> additional support fromDoD.” *TRANSCRIBED INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BYDOD IG: 
> *J6 SELECT: *OVERSIGHT: *
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> https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/general-milley-ignored-trump- 
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