And, he can still spread bullshit about “they wouldn’t give me a chance to defend myself”. And the rubes will buy it.
I don’t know where else to post this since I killed the Jan 6 thread. ThelmaLou hangs head in shame
Transcripts released Thursday include interviews with:
- Christina Bobb, Trump campaign attorney
- David Bowdich, deputy director of the FBI
- Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C.
- Taylor Budowich, Trump spokesman
- Robert Contee III, chief of the .D.C Metropolitan Police Department
- Ray Epps, ex-U.S. Marine, former president of the Arizona Oath Keepers
- Ruby Freeman, election worker from Georgia harassed by the former president’s supporters and election fraud conspiracy theorists
- Stephanie Grisham, former White House press secretary
- Alyssa Farah Griffin, former White House director of strategic communications
- Kimberly Guilfoyle, former adviser to Trump, spouse to Donald Trump Jr.
- Chris Hodgson, former director of legislative affairs to former Vice President Mike Pence
- Doug Mastriano, former Pennsylvania state senator, failed gubernatorial candidate for Pennsylvania
- Ryan McCarthy, former Secretary of the U.S. Army
- Christopher Miller, former acting Secretary of Defense
- Stephen Miller, former senior adviser to Trump
- Wandrea Arshaye Moss, election worker from Georgia harassed by the former president’s supporters and election fraud conspiracy theorists and extremists
- Mark Robinson, retired D.C. Metropolitan Police Department sergeant
- Steven Sund, former U.S. Capitol Police chief
- Donald Trump Jr., former President Donald Trump’s eldest son and executive vice president of Trump Organization
From what I’ve heard this one is likely to be the most explosive. Miller dances around the fact that he never tried to contact Trump during the hours that Schumer, Pelosi (and I think Pence) were calling Miller and saying ‘where is the National Guard???’
One possible implication is that Miller already had his orders from Trump World: do NOT do anything to stop Trump’s fans from disrupting the Electoral College vote-certification process. Let them stop it.
I am extremely interested to see what follow-up there may be to Miller’s actions and inactions on that day. (And I hope against hope that the answer is NOT “no follow-up.”)
Probably “crickets”
I would NOT bet against those metaphorical noisy insects.
You’d think that if a secdef accepted orders to refrain from interfering with an unlawful attempt to subvert a legitimate Congressional function, that would matter.
But perhaps it would matter only if done by a Democratic secdef.