Tragic Ashli Babbitt and the buried Jan. 6 truth

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Trump two days later ordered Lafayette Square to be cleared so he could reassure the public by appearing at St. John's Church, which had been firebombed the previous night.
46% : "In his Jan 4., 2021, memo titled: "Employment guidance," Miller dictates that, without his "personal authorization" the DC National Guard cannot be issued with "weapons, ammunition, bayonets, batons, or . . .
46% : Conveniently for the Democrats, the riot prevented Trump allies' efforts in Congress from delaying certification of the electoral college votes and was a perfect branding exercise to make Trump and his supporters look bad.
36% : Milley was constantly talking to people about the threat of a "coup" by Trump after the 2020 election, Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker wrote in their book "I Alone Can Fix It," which paints Milley as a defender of democracy rather than an emotional weakling defying his commander in chief.
32% : Something else significant happened the day Miller issued his memo: an op-ed signed by ten former secretaries of defense, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Jim Mattis, was published by The Washington Post warning that Trump might use the military to hang on to power.
24% : Milley came to see Trump as Hitler.
23% : But the National Guard didn't arrive for hours, delayed not just by Pelosi but by officials at the Pentagon who had become so Trump-deranged that they believed Trump would repurpose the troops to declare martial law and try to hang on to power.
22% : "Milley seemed to get radicalized after the June 2020 riots at Lafayette Square in front of the White House, which got so violent that Trump and his family had to be evacuated by the Secret Service to an underground bunker.

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