{"id":41463,"date":"2021-03-02T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T17:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41463"},"modified":"2021-03-02T12:50:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T17:50:31","slug":"why-were-the-troops-refused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41463","title":{"rendered":"Why Were The Troops Refused?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/breaking\/trump-capitol-natl-guard-request\/?fbclid=IwAR3i49PxhBy5aC4PlTVu7Y3mcV0Oe8rEOkJBX_ZHWtZbawjN7YfCztbXwnU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The National Pulse<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Speaking Steve Hilton on \u201cThe Revolution,\u201d the former president outlined how he knew in advance of the crowd size:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>\u201cEveryone said we\u2019ll be at the rally. It was, I think, the largest crowd that I have ever spoken to before. I have spoken to big crowds, hundreds of thousands of people, more than that, but hundreds of thousands of people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In response, Trump said he \u201cgave the number\u201d to the Department of Defense, insisting that 10,000 members of the National Guard would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-says-he-requested-10k-national-guard-troops-at-capitol-on-day-of-riot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">needed<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThey took that number, from what I understand, they gave it to people at the Capitol, that is controlled by Pelosi, and I heard they rejected it because they didn\u2019t think it would look good,\u201d added Trump in the interview after his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) speech.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article notes that this was confirmed in a Vanity Fair article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On the evening of January 5\u2014the night before a white supremacist mob stormed Capitol Hill in a siege that would leave five dead\u2014the acting secretary of defense,\u00a0Christopher Miller,\u00a0was at the White House with his chief of staff,\u00a0Kash Patel.\u00a0They were meeting with President Trump on \u201can Iran issue,\u201d Miller told me. But then the conversation switched gears. The president, Miller recalled, asked how many troops the Pentagon planned to turn out the following day. \u201cWe\u2019re like, \u2018We\u2019re going to provide any National Guard support that the District requests,\u2019\u201d Miller responded. \u201cAnd [Trump] goes, \u2018You\u2019re going to need 10,000 people.\u2019 No, I\u2019m not talking bullshit. He said that. And we\u2019re like, \u2018Maybe. But you know, someone\u2019s going to have to ask for it.\u2019\u201d At that point Miller remembered the president telling him, \u201c\u2018You do what you need to do. You do what you need to do.\u2019 He said, \u2018You\u2019re going to need 10,000.\u2019 That\u2019s what he said. Swear to God.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would like to note here that it wasn&#8217;t a white supremacist mob, but you will be hearing it described in that way in the future by those who want to limit your freedom. This has nothing to do with white supremacy&#8211;it has to do with creating an image of domestic terrorism that will allow the government to spy on anyone who does not support the current political agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The National Pulse reported the following: Speaking Steve Hilton on \u201cThe Revolution,\u201d the former president outlined how he knew in advance of the crowd size: \u201cEveryone said we\u2019ll be at the rally. It was, I think, the largest crowd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41463\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13347,10160,10589,12878],"class_list":["post-41463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-january-6th","tag-national-guard","tag-president-trump","tag-the-national-pulse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41464,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41463\/revisions\/41464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}