Posted on 03/11/2021 12:55:59 PM PST by GIdget2004
Christopher Miller, who served as acting secretary of defense under former President Donald Trump, blamed him for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a new interview.
“Would anybody have marched on the Capitol, and tried to overrun the Capitol, without the president’s speech?” Miller said during an interview with Vice on Showtime, which will air in full on March 14. “I think it’s pretty much definitive that wouldn’t have happened.”
Shortly before Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, the president told the crowd of his “Save America Rally” that the 2020 election was “a criminal enterprise,” and encouraged them to “fight like hell.”
“If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” he said hours before members of that same crowd burst through the doors of Congress in an attempt to stop lawmakers from certifying the results.
Miller noted that although he does not know if Trump knew his speech would invoke such a drastic response, there would not have been an attack without him.
“It seems cause-and-effect,” Miller said of Trump’s speech, later adding, “The question is, did he know he was enraging people to do that? I don’t know.”
Miller was named acting secretary of defense in November 2020, after Trump fired Mark Esper. Miller received backlash on Jan. 6 for his response to the Capitol attack, as many faulted his department for taking too long to deploy the National Guard.
“It comes back to understanding how the military works — this isn’t a video game, it’s not Black Ops Call of Duty,” Miller said, defending his part in the response, before revealing that he never spoke to Trump on Jan. 6.
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This guy must have been born stupid, ANTIFA(Anti First Amendment) Stormed the Capitol BEFORE Trump was done speaking, so how did he do this, Telepathy?
Look around you and look at what is happening. I think that you will be able to answer your own question. And the answer will be, “yes”.
They are still building their case.
the the TDS scum just pouring out of the woodworks is unreal- it’s like a never ending flood-
If youse just woulda cooperated and woulda let me do what I wanted, there wouldn’ta been any violence...see little lady?
The peasants are just supposed to sit down and shut up when the Elites steal an election and execute a coup...
Many “things” would not have happened but for the Presidency of Donald J. Trump, almost all of them positive for the country.
The party host is NOT responsible for the behavior of the guests!!!!!!!!!
people didn’t need Donald Trump in order to march on the capitol angry about a stolen election! It wouldn’t have mattered who the president was that lost on our side- IF the same thing happened to them that happened to Trump- the people would have done the same damn thing- go and PEACEFULLY Protest at the capitol
We couldn’t help it if antifa and blm domestic terrorists infiltrated the march!
I can’;t believe how many gutless dolts have turned on our party and who support the liberal lies over and over again-
I guess in a way it’s good to see them all exposing themselves as worthless turds now- so we can vote them out, those up for election that is, next election
I hope he won’t listen to his liberal children on who to pick- or to anyone close to him that isn’t anythign but a solid conservative-
Corrupt elections have consequences
What a stupid cluck. POTUS Trump should have just assumed that everyone in Washington was a backbiting serpant.
The Ruling Establishment, probably at the direction of Pelosi, found someone of influence to go to Miller and advise him that his career might be salvaged if he read a prepared statement (in his own words, of course) blaming Trump for the Capitol "Attack."
Pelosi and the Establishment are still hurling grenades at Trump. It shows us just how worried they are about his continued influence.
The only thing I hear from this guy is a braying Elitist donkey, laughing about how the “election” was stolen right in the faces of the stupid peasants.
And Biden got 80 million votes (bad words)
Just sayin'.
Let’s start the Hussein impeachment for Traybon riots then.
Another traitor unmasks. I did not see that one coming. I thought Miller was a white hat.
“Are all people in government as stupid and illogical as this moron?”
Yes, since the evidence shows the riot was planned long before Trump gave the speech, and began before he finished the speech.
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