So much for the impeccable hearing you people hold dear to your hearts. It was a get Trump at any costs move from the get go.
Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had ‘no evidence’ to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had asked for 10,000 National Guard troops.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney’s January 6 Committee suppressed evidence that President Donald Trump pushed for 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the nation’s capital, a previously hidden transcript obtained by The Federalist shows.
Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had “no evidence” to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops. In fact, an early transcribed interview conducted by the committee included precisely that evidence from a key source. The interview, which Cheney attended and personally participated in, was suppressed from public release until now.
Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato’s first transcribed interview with the committee was conducted on January 28, 2022. In it, he told Cheney and her investigators that 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.
He also testified President Trump had suggested 10,000 would be needed to keep the peace at the public rallies and protests scheduled for January 6, 2021. Ornato also described White House frustration with Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller’s slow deployment of assistance on the afternoon of January 6, 2021.
Not only did the committee not accurately characterize the interview, they suppressed the transcript from public review. On top of that, committee allies began publishing critical stories and even conspiracy theories about Ornato ahead of follow-up interviews with him. Ornato was a career Secret Service official who had been detailed to the security position in the White House.
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Cheney frequently points skeptics of her investigation to the Government Publishing Office website that posted, she said, “transcripts, documents, exhibits & our meticulously sourced 800+ page final report.” That website provides “supporting documents” to the claims made by Cheney and fellow anti-Trump enthusiasts.
However, transcripts of fewer than half of the 1,000 interviews the committee claims it conducted are posted on that site. It is unclear how many of the hidden transcripts include exonerating information suppressed by the committee.
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“The former J6 Select Committee apparently withheld Mr. Ornato’s critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their pre-determined narrative. Mr. Ornato’s testimony proves what Mr. Meadows has said all along: President Trump did in fact offer 10,000 National Guard troops to secure the U.S. Capitol, which was turned down,” said the Georgia Republican.
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“This is just one example of important information the former Select Committee hid from the public because it contradicted what they wanted the American people to believe,” Loudermilk said. “And this is exactly why my investigation is committed to uncovering all the facts, no matter the outcome.”
Cheney and her Jan. 6 committee falsely claimed they had 'no evidence' the Trump White House had asked for 10,000 National Guard troops.
thefederalist.com
Oh when oh when will the fools realize they're fools...
From the actual factual report:
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An Absent Commander-in-Chief.
Vice President Mike Pence called several times to check in on the delayed response of the Guard. President Trump did not. Vice President Pence called Acting Secretary Miller at least two times.262“He was very animated, and he issued very explicit, very direct, unambiguous orders. There was no question about that,” General Milley said.263
“And he said, ‘Get the National Guard down here. Get them down here now, andclear the Capitol.’ You know, and this is the Vice President of the UnitedStates. And there was other forceful language.’”264Acting Secretary Miller clarified that “he did not order me,” as “he’snot in the chain of command,” but he considered the talk with the Vice President “[h]yper professional” and “[v]ery focused,” in which the secretary “highlighted that District of Columbia National Guard . . . was activated, and we were throwing every asset we could marshal to support law enforcement.”265
In contrast, according to General Milley, Chief of Staff Meadows called and said, “‘We have to kill the narrative that the Vice President is making all the decisions. We need to establish the narrative, you know, that the President is still in charge and that things are steady or stable,’ or words tothat effect. I immediately interpreted that as politics, politics, politics.”266
President Trump himself did not call. As reports of Departments of Defense denials and delay were echoing in the media, no high-level Defense official—including Secretaries Miller 267 and McCarthy 268—received a call from him that day.269 At the time, General Milley thought that was “absolutely . . . highly unusual.”270“[Y]ou're the Commander in Chief. You've got an assault going on onthe Capitol of the United States of America, and there's nothing? No call?Nothing? Zero?” he said.271 “I grew up in an organization where commanders are responsible and take charge and they see situations unfolding andthey issue orders and take charge.”272On January 3rd, at the end of a national security meeting concerning aforeign threat, the President asked “in passing” about January 6th preparations.273 Acting Secretary Miller informed him they would be fulfilling Mayor Bowser’s request for DC Guard support.274 From then on, if not earlier, the secretary “felt like I had all the authorities I needed and did not need to discuss anything with the President regarding authorities.”275 The conversation lasted all of 30 seconds to a minute.276
Secretary Miller testified that he never received any order at any time from President Trump to deploy the National Guard on January 6th. “There was no direct—there was no order from the President,” he said.277On January 5th, as demonstrators rallied in support of the President, Acting Secretary Miller received a call from the commander-in-chief.278The President asked him if he was watching the events on television.279 Thesecretary told him he had caught some of the coverage.280Unprompted, President Trump then said, “You’re going to need 10,000people” the following day, as in troops.281 An email sent by Chief of StaffMeadows on January 5th explicitly noted that the DC Guard would be onhand to “protect pro Trump people.”282 The President and his staffappeared to be aware of the likelihood of violence on the day the electioncertification of his loss was slated to transpire. This communication fromPresident Trump contemplated that the Guard could support and secure thesafety of Trump supporters, not protect the Capitol. At that time, SecretaryMiller apparently had no information on what President Trump planned forJanuary 6th.Acting Secretary Miller thought the 10,000 number was astronomical—“we expected 35,000 protesters . . . [and] even if there were more protestersthan expected, [we thought] that local law enforcement could handleit”283—but, again, this was “no order from the President,” just “PresidentTrump banter that you all are familiar with.”284"
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