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.
Pelosi - Calling Marines ‘soldiers’ doesn’t help your case.
But Pelosi didn't. The author did. He did it while allegedly paraphrasing the Commandant.
Which is why this is bull crap.
Still BS.
Yep. I don’t disagree.
I agree this is BS
My initial reaction is that this is misinformation. However, given the documented fact that Pelosi did call the joint chiefs to try to get them to essentially enact a coup against the President by refusing lawful orders . . . . . well there is a more solid chance that the arrogant one herself did make such a call. My only hope is that the exchange is real.
Yeah
What have you, a self-serving elected official, done for your country?” Gen. Berger said.
Yeah, doesn’t pass the smell test. Like 95% of the information being published or posted these days.
I’m far better using fortune cookies to predict what’s going to happen tomorrow than follow media/journalism.
If this had actually happened, Pelosi’s reaction would have been far more indignant; she certainly would consider herself to be far above some dumb military grunt.
I would prefer the crowd be entirely Biden supporters....all 100 of them. With thousands of National Guard they will ok rediculous. Besides, there will be thousands of Trump supporters there. They I’ll be National Guard, police officers, etc.
I thought the US military (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines) were not permitted to fight against citizens on US soil like that? I guess they did in the Civil War, but normally I thought they were not allowed to?
Vastly more likely he would cite the United States Code and the Uniform Code of Military Justice about the chain of command than an Internet worthy insult.
Heart-warming but fake.
Anyone who thinks the Left is going to calm down after the inauguration is whistling past the graveyard. They’re saying it out loud and right to our faces.
We are worse than Al Queda. We are domestic terrorists. Insurrectionists. Hate filled White Supremacists who need to be “deprogrammed”.
We are being kicked off social media, denied basic business services, being doxxed, hounded, fired from our jobs, livelihoods destroyed, and publicly threatened with prison for exercising God given rights.
These people are serious. They hate us. They want us enslaved or dead and they’ll take either. They’re screaming it at us.
It’s way past time to take them at their word.
You want treasonous speech? This is it
She has no power to command the armed forces
Yes, this has got to be fake.
I can’t see any general/bureaucrat saying such things.
I think it would be more impressive if no one showed up. Imagine 50 hippies in little row boats in front of The Washington monument. That would be priceless.
Nice fan fiction, but it never happened.
If Biden’s inauguration is outside wonder what the odds of lightening strikes are?.
Flattery by insulting the national guard?!
The chair of the House of Representatives just called the National Guard “weekend warriors”!!!!
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