Time to take a trip back into the J6 Way Back Machine where we discover yet another layer of subterfuge constructed by the 13th Street NW D.C. cartel of lawyers, apparatchiks, and disinformation specialists out to get Trump.
Over the weekend, former Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney was outed for her role in ignoring and burying exculpatory information about President Trump's actions leading to the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol.
For years, Kash Patel, former federal prosecutor and Department of Defense (DoD) chief of staff to Defense Secretary Chris Miller, has maintained that President Trump and his administration approved of the deployment of 10-20,000 National Guard troops and offered them to the leaders who are required to sign off on such deployments. National Guard deployments are a closed-loop system. The president may offer them, but a local leader, such as D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, must officially request them.
The Trump White House, concerned about planned Antifa violence, offered. It made sense. Antifa and BLM rioters had set American cities on fire since 2017. They'd attacked Republicans coming from Trump events in D.C., set homes and police precincts on fire, and put the White House under siege for three days, forcing the president and his family into the White House bunker.
The D.C. Mayor and Nancy Pelosi's office turned down the request. Militarizing the Capitol Complex was a bad look, the Democrats said at the time.
Bowser wrote the DoD a letter saying that between the Metropolitan Police, Secret Service uniformed division, and others, she didn't feel she needed the large contingent of the National Guard beyond the 300 she had.
Patel reiterated this long-held claim in his recent testimony in the Democrats' efforts to remove Trump's name from the ballot in Colorado.
Mayor Bowser wrote a letter herself on approximately Jan. 4... declining further requests for National Guard services outside of the 346 National Guardsmen already authorized. The authorization came in beforehand. It was relayed to the appropriate officials in D.C. and the Capitol Police. It was declined, and we acted when their request finally came in on January 6.
Liz Cheney, a Republican who co-chaired the Pelosi-picked J6 committee, said there was no evidence to support the contention that Trump had offered a large National Guard contingent to show that somehow he was derelict in keeping the Capitol safe. Oops.
Cheney's committee asserted that Miller's testimony claimed that no troops were waiting to be deployed. Here's Miller on television with Patel saying that the Trump administration offered the troops, but they were turned down.
The COVERUP,
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DEPUTY DIR. SECRET SERVICE TESTIFIED,
Mark Meadows pushed Mayor Bowser for Trump’s call for ‘10,000 National Guard needed to keep the peace at Jan 6’ and she refused,
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In his story nearby, Matt reports about the depths to which Cheney went to bury that information and disappear exculpatory evidence.
Among the evidence she buried was the J6 testimony of Deputy White House Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato from 2022 in which the Federalist reports he testified "he overheard White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows push Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to request as many National Guard troops as she needed to protect the city."
Indeed, a DoD Inspector General's report confirming Trump's Department of Defense acted appropriately beforehand regarding National Guard presence blows up Cheney's claim.
We concluded that the actions the DoD took before Jan. 6, 2021, to prepare for the planned protests in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, were appropriate, supported by requirements, consistent with the DoD’s roles and responsibilities for DSCA, and compliant with laws, regulations, and other applicable guidance.
We also examined the actions the DoD took before January 6, 2021, that were independent of the D.C. RFA. We looked for a role or responsibility for the DoD to act preemptively to prevent or deter what later happened at the Capitol. We found none. On the contrary, we found restrictions that limited the DoD’s roles and responsibilities in planning and providing support for domestic civil disturbance operations (CDO).
And why would they be concerned? Here's another part of the DoD IG report quoting former Army Secretary Ryan C. McCarthy on the prospects of violence that day because of previous D.C. Antifa and BLM violence:
"They looted buildings. They spray-painted monuments. They burned a church. Six of our [DCNG] Soldiers were injured and over the course of those 3 or 4 days about 100 policemen were injured," he told the IG.
By now we should all know how the committee went out of its way to highlight, Hollywood style, Trump haters, one-sided testimony, and how it cherry-picked data to come to their "get Trump" preordained outcome. No exculpatory evidence was allowed. It was a Hollywood-produced, prime-time, political hit job. It was an embarrassment to anyone who still believes in the rule of law.
But Cheney's actions were even worse in light of her other activities leading to the Capitol Riot. Cheney authored two media hit pieces calling inappropriate any efforts to use the military to quell violence. One of the hit pieces involved a letter signed by previous Secretaries of Defense, including her father, casting any use of the National Guard as an insurrectionist act.
Liz Cheney took a page from the Clinton playbook and triangulated her take on January 6. She blamed Trump before it happened, blamed him after it happened, and then hid evidence to make sure her preordained outcome happened.
