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https://townhall.com/columnists/deroymurdock/2022/04/07/this-opinion-just-in-insurrectionist-trump-approved-national-guard-troops-for-dc-on-january-6-democrats-said-no-n2605581

=='Insurrectionist' Trump Approved National Guard Troops for D.C. on Jan 6. Dems Said No.

Posted: Apr 07, 2022 12:01 AM

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The Democrat-run January 6 Committee is at full boil. It demands records, testimony, and even contempt-of-Congress charges against a host of Trump Administration officials, including advisors Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino. Its Trump-obsessed members believe they are this close to proving that their much-loathed “DonaldTrump” ordered the January 6 riot as a citizen-fueled, America First, coup d’état.

Before Democrats whip themselves into a deeper frenzy, they should calm down and ask themselves this question:

If they planned to rob the Bank of America branch on Manhattan’s Union Square, would they call 911 before this heist and urge the NYPD to scramble 100 squad cars to the scene of the crime?

Not bloody likely.

Likewise, if Donald J. Trump (DJT) wanted his supporters to storm Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, and disrupt that day’s congressional certification of Electoral College votes, would he two days earlier have approved 10,000 to 20,000 Washington, D.C. National Guard (DCNG) soldiers to stymie his own seditious plans?

This scenario makes less-than-zero sense, which explains why Democrats are so desperate to conceal the highly exculpatory facts about that red-letter date.

Things began to simmer that New Year’s Eve:

On December 31, 2020, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser requested DCNG troops to support the local Metro Police Department (MPD), in advance of “First Amendment events” planned for January 6, 2021.

In response, “DJT authorized the use of the military to support local and federal law enforcement on 6 Jan.,” then-Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller told me. “He directed that I provide whatever support was requested. Absolutely true statement.”

“I told POTUS that we were fulfilling the only request received it was from D.C. Mayor Bowser for a few hundred District of Columbia National Guard troops and that no one else asked for any additional military support,” Miller added.

“The President scoffed and said, ‘You’ll need ten to twenty thousand.’ I did not respond,” Miller continued. “He then reiterated that I should provide any military support requested. That was the way he worked and gave orders. He listened, asked questions, commented and then, if necessary, refined his guidance.”

Miller concluded: “So, technically, he authorized unlimited military support.”

Miller’s top aide echoed his comments.