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Trump’s Jan. 6 Order To Protect Capitol Using Military Was Disobeyed: Report

Charlie Kirk Staff

12/19/2024

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Trump’s Jan. 6 Order To Protect Capitol Using Military Was Disobeyed: Report

As the media has been distracted by the monstrosity of a continuing resolution that is being debated in Washington DC a massive piece of news slipped by.

President Donald Trump not only suggested that the military be deployed to protect the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he ordered it and was ignored.

The Inspector General interviewed people who spoke to President Trump at the time and recalled that he wanted the Capitol to be protected.

That destroys the narrative that the president wanted chaos and an “insurrection” to stop the certification of the election.

One of the interviews was done with former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley who has not been a fan of President-elect Trump, who remembered his conversation with the president.

“Hey, I don’t care if you use Guard, or soldiers, active-duty soldiers, do whatever you have to do. Just make sure it’s safe,” he said he remembered the president saying.

But Trump’s acting defense secretary at the time, Christopher Miller, said he considered what the president said to be “banter” and not an order and apparently thought he was the final authority.

“There was absolutely — there is absolutely no way I was putting U.S. Military forces at the Capitol,” he said in the interview.

Miller apparently took his direction from a Washington Post piece on January 3, 2021, that was penned by all 10 living former defense secretaries that said Miller should “refrain from any political actions that undermine the results of the election or hinder the success of the new team.”

And he was very concerned about being labeled a “Trump crony.”

“Then you had this constant drumbeat of, remember when I came in the story was that I was a stuffed suit, that I was a Trump crony, that was going to use the United States military to conduct a military coup to overthrow the government, the elected government of the United States. So that is what was out there in the Twittersphere,” Miller testified.

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

Charlie is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, which regularly ranks among the top-10 news shows on Apple podcast news charts, and is the host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show on the Salem Radio Network live from 12 - 3 PM ET.
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