POTUS does not need the National Guard. He is building his own SS. Sorry, I should have said “Homeland Security.” How else would you explain the need for millions of rounds of ammunition, 1,700 new tanks, and the use of drones to spy on Americans in America?
That conspiracy theory has also been pretty thoroughly debunked, although I do believe the question of why so many agencies of the government have their own small but substantial police forces is a good one.
It is one of the things that drives up the cost of government, after all.
As an example: Why would the Department of Education have a police force? Well, the Department of Education administers programs that hand out billions of our tax dollars in grants and loans. And the congress apparently gave them the power to investigate fraud and abuse in those programs for which they give grants and loans.
And they also gave them enforcement power to act based on the investigations. And that means they have an enforcement division. And that division can apparently conduct police-like actions, doing searches of property for example. And because they all fear citizens, all such searches are done by armed agents, and so they need guns, and ammunition.
To explain the “debunking”, as another example, a department didn’t purchase 450 million rounds. They signed a 5-year-deal with a contractor where the contractor agreed to have the ability to deliver UP TO 450 million rounds over the 5-year-period at the agreed-upon price.
The government will exercise that contract on an as-needed basis, signing specific purchase orders for delivery from time to time. They have not purchased the entire 450 million bullets, nor are they likely to get close to that amount.
This would be like claiming the government was stockpiling F-35 fighter jets because they signed a contract for 10,000 of them, when the contract would be for “up to 10,000” planes over the 30-year life of the contract.