Posted on 01/14/2021 7:21:19 AM PST by Candor7
General David H. Berger, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps., refused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s request to use the Corps. to safeguard Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration from Trump supporters and insurrectionists.
A Pentagon source speaking under promise of anonymity told Real Raw News that Pelosicontacted Gen. Berger late Monday night, and she beseeched him to commit 5,000 troops to help ensure a peaceful transition of power and to prevent a repeat of the Jan 6 siege of the Capitol. Gen. Berger, our source said, didn’t understand why Pelosi needed additional soldiers to augment an already impressive force assembled by federal and state officials. That force includes 15,000 National Guard from D.C., Delaware, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, and an undisclosed number of FBI and DHS agents who arrived in D.C. Sunday night.
Pelosi said she wanted “battle ready” reinforcements because “radicalized Trump supporters and kooky Qanon conspiracy people” were about to converge on D.C. She implored him to reconsider, arguing that it was the general’s patriotic duty to quell uprisings and guarantee Biden’s ascension to the Oval Office.
Her statement made the general explode, our source said.
“Don’t lecture me on patriotism, Madam Speaker. I’ve served this country with distinction for 40 years. I’ve spilled blood for our nation. What have you, a self-serving elected official, done for your country?” Gen. Berger said.
Pelosi further enraged him by saying he was answerable to Congress.
“I answer only to the president, and as I understand it, Donald J. Trump is still president and commander-in-chief. I abide in the Constitution as it was written, not your interpretation of it,” Gen. Berger admonished Pelosi.
Quoting our source, “When her intimidation tactic failed to sway Gen. Berger, Pelosi tried a different tactic: Begging and flattery.”
Pelosi claimed that the National Guard’s “weekend warriors” were ill-prepared to repel an army of “mad Trumpists.” Battle-hardened marines, however, were more capable of defeating “rabble rousers,” she said. “You have the best trained soldiers in the world, and America needs them.”
Gen. Berger was unmoved. The only way Marines would be deployed, he told her, was if President Trump himself issued that order.
“If you want us to help combat his supporters, I suggest you get him on the phone and tell him that. If he orders me to, I will. Otherwise, I suggest you listen really hard to the words escaping your cracked, poisonous lips; they’re tantamount to treason,” Gen. Berger allegedly told her.
Same here.
Yes. Plausible, but it reads like a TV script.
Pelosi - Calling Marines ‘soldiers’ doesn’t help your case.
They might not talk like that to an elected official....but they likely don’t have 4 stars on their shoulders, either. Can’t really get any higher, rank-wise.
Undoubtedly.
When I moved from Seattle to my hobby farm in Kentucky in 2011, about 10% of the reason was as a SHTF home. I never seriously thought that would ever be necessary, though.
Yet here we are. I don’t see how we avoid it. And this year.
I am skeptical
Can’t possibly be true, but very funny!
Which, though possible, is highly doubtful.
“And if you want a second opinion, you’re ugly too!”
I spose it’s possible he said these things but not very likely.
Should’ve slapped her.
Right?, this sounds far fetched.
Yeah, this didn't happen. Nice fiction though.
If this exchange is true, this is good news.
I don’t believe it, either — at least not the verbiage in quotes. He might’ve given her the same basic message, but in different words.
Exactly. Bears repeating. I believed it up until the last sentence.
I see retirement quickly approaching for some one. And it ain’t nanzi.
Gen. Berger, our source said, didn’t understand why Pelosi needed additional soldiers...
Then the source is full of crap.
No Commandant would refer to his Marines as 'soldiers.'
If the General resigns early in the afternoon of Jan 20, we will have that confirmation. But it might be tough getting that out of the MSM.
Oh, as you might know, even when retired the General knows how to find all the patriots in the Corps.
Agree.
How many top generals are even patriots anymore and not political boot lickers?
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