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Trump has frequently insisted he called for 10,000 troops (sometimes it’s inflated as 20,000) to keep the peace on Jan. 6, 2021, as part of his defense against accusations that he incited the attack on the Capitol as Congress met to certify the 2020 Electoral College count on the presidential election.

Christopher Miller, then the acting secretary of defense, testified under oath to the Jan. 6 committee that there was no such order for troops from Trump, according to the report.

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But two days before the violence erupted, Trump insisted that he should accompany protesters on a march to the Capitol aimed at blocking certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential win, according to testimony from Max Miller, who was a White House senior adviser at the time.

That’s when Trump “floated the idea of having 10,000 National Guardsmen deployed to protect him and his supporters from any supposed threat from left-wing counterprotesters,” recounted Miller, who said he told Trump it was a bad idea.

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Trump’s desire to deploy 10,000 active-duty troops to quell Black Lives Matter protests near the White House in June 2020 triggered fears among Pentagon officials that he might issue an “illegal order” for troops to help him remain in power after losing the 2020 election, according to the committee report.

  HuffPo

And this was Trump's claim at the time:

“I requested … I definitely gave the number of 10,000 National Guardsmen, and [said] I think you should have 10,000 of the National Guard ready. They took that number. From what I understand, they gave it to the people at the Capitol, which is controlled by Pelosi. And I heard they rejected it because they didn’t think it would look good. So, you know, that was a big mistake.”

  The Dispatch

It wasn't troops to guard the Capitol that he wanted, and it wasn't Nancy Pelosi who told him it wouldn't look good. Not to mention, the Speaker of the House would have no power to reject troops sent by the president.  The Capitol is not "controlled by Pelosi."

AFP Fact Check

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

What the hell?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

WTF?

The Pentagon has called a halt to transition meetings with Biden's team. Interesting timing when we've just learned of a hacking breach of major US government agencies, including the DoD.

On Friday, Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller announced a two-week pause in transition meetings with Joe Biden’s administration transition team, with some Friday meetings already being rescheduled.

In a statement to American Military News, Miller described the move as a “mutually-agreed upon” pause.

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Miller said the two-week pause will is to allow requests for information “on OWS and COVID-19 information to guarantee a flawless transition.”

“After the mutually-agreed upon holiday pause, which begins tomorrow, we will continue with the transition and rescheduled meetings from today,” Miller said.

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Two weeks ago, the Washington Post reported Pentagon officials were refusing to let the Biden team meet with various military intelligence offices. The Pentagon issued a public statement denying the reporting, while one current defense official told the Washington Post that issues with the transition are actually attributable to Biden’s transition team, which he said tried to directly contact agencies to arrange their visits, rather than submit meeting requests through the Pentagon.

  American Military News

And what? They had to be punished?

Today, Axios reported a Pentagon official also downplayed the latest report of a delay in the transition efforts, calling it “a simple delay of the last few scheduled meetings until after the new year.”

The official told Axios that Miller’s order delayed fewer than two-dozen meetings, but that the DoD staff needed for the meetings were being overwhelmed by the number of meetings they had already participated in.

“These same senior leaders needed to do their day jobs and were being consumed by transition activities,” the official told Axios. “With the holidays we are taking a knee for two weeks. We are still committed to a productive transition.”

"Taking a knee"?

The day after Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper and appointed Miller to serve in the acting role, three top Pentagon officials resigned.

Biden spokesperson Yohannes Abraham directly contradicted acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller's claims that the two teams "mutually agreed" to pause the interviews until after the holiday.

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Meetings planned for Friday were postponed due to "rapidly changing priorities here," said a defense official, citing the FDA's approval of a second coronavirus vaccine, a possible government shutdown, and a massive hack of U.S. government agencies.

  Politico

Making the meetings even more important than ever.

"There have been many agencies and departments that have facilitated the exchange of info and meetings over the past few weeks," Abraham said. "There have been pockets of recalcitrance and DoD is one of them."

Biden spokesperson Jen Psaki added that while the career officials at DoD have been "cooperative and helpful," the team has had "isolated" issues with Trump political appointees.

Imagine that.

Meetings between DoD officials and the transition team got off to a late start on Nov. 24, due to a delay in approval by the General Services Administration, which must greenlight cooperation. The approval came 16 days after Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election.

This marks the second time in less than three weeks that the Pentagon has addressed reports that defense officials have blocked requests from the Biden team to meet with department leaders.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Meanwhile

The acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center was removed Wednesday in what insiders fear is a purge by the Trump administration of career professionals at an organization set up after 9/11 to protect the nation from further attacks, according to two former U.S. officials.

Russell E. Travers, a highly regarded intelligence professional with more than 40 years of government service, told colleagues he was fired by acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell.

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The surprise move came hours after President Trump announced his intent to nominate Pentagon Special Operations and counterterrorism official Christopher Miller to head the center. A deputy director will be named to serve as acting director pending Miller’s confirmation, said a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

A spokeswoman for Grenell disputed that Travers was fired.

Travers “was offered the opportunity to move to a new role and chose to retire,” Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Strategic Communications Amanda Schoch said in a statement to The Washington Post.

  WaPo

What was the new role? Janitor?

One of the former officials said that Travers walked into a meeting on Wednesday expecting to brief Grenell on the center when he was told that he was out. He had no intention or desire to retire, they said.

In the meeting, Grenell told Travers he would like to know “how long it would take you to leave,” according to one of the former officials, who was briefed on the meeting. Travers replied that he would need “a few weeks” to complete the administrative work, the official recounted.

“They said, ‘Great, we’ll afford you the opportunity to retire,’ ” the former official said.

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Travers, who began his career as a U.S. Army intelligence officer in 1978, took up the acting position last August when the center’s then-director, Joseph Maguire, was tapped to become the acting DNI. Maguire was fired by Trump last month amid a controversy over a briefing given to lawmakers by a subordinate on Russian threats to the 2020 election.

The president then named Grenell, a staunch loyalist, to serve as the acting DNI until a permanent director has been confirmed.

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Grenell and senior adviser Kashyap Patel, also installed last month, are seeking ways to reduce the overall size of the ODNI, according to one former intelligence official. The NCTC is seen as a rich target, and the career officials who have pressed for cuts in the past see an opening, said the former official.

“They see an opportunity now to give the politicals the scalps they want while achieving changes they’ve long sought at the same time,” the former official said.

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In a farewell note to the workforce Wednesday, Travers noted Trump’s plan to bring on Miller, lauded Miller’s experience and said the acting DNI wanted to “assemble a new team.” He sought to boost morale, noting the center’s accomplishments. “We have recently been the subject of an external evaluation by a group of national security luminaries that strongly validated the need for the center,” he wrote. “And most importantly, we have you — the finest workforce with whom I have ever been associated. I have no doubt that the center is postured for success going forward.”

If only we could all share his optimism.

“There’s not a lot of love for NCTC at the CIA, given the professionals in CIA’s own counterterrorism mission center have the operational and analytic expertise in this area,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA counterterrorism official, who said he does not see the NCTC shake-up as an attack on the intelligence community, but rather a natural downsizing that was long overdue.

Yet one of the center’s strengths, officials say, is its ability to integrate information from domestic and foreign intelligence sources without running afoul of privacy laws.

But who cares about that these days?

Sending CIA and other analysts back to their home agencies may reduce the center’s numbers, but “you can’t take all those NCTC authorities and put them back at the CIA,” said one of the former officials. “We don’t send domestic information to a foreign intelligence agency. That’s the system we have to protect against abuse of surveillance authorities.”

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.