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To: edie1960; Jane Long; All

This may have already been posted but even if it was we need to see it again......

Matthews claims that Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, and then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, were plotting to disobey any orders handed down by Trump because they ‘unreasonably’ assumed the then-president was going to break the law and try to use the D.C. National Guard (DCNG) to stop certification of the 2020 presidential election results...

Matthews says that senior military leadership essentially stripped the president of his authority as commander-in-chief by preemptively planning to go against orders because they didn’t like the optics of uniformed soldiers at the Capitol.

‘I think a very plausible argument can be made that through no fault of his own, President Trump’s command authority over both the D.C. National Guard and the U.S. Army itself had been surreptitiously curtailed by the senior leadership of the Army on January 6, 2021,’ Matthews told DailyMail.com.

He continued: ‘Army leadership had unreasonably anticipated an ‘unlawful order’ from the President, an order that the President had no plans to issue, and were preemptively seeking to curtail his discretion to issue such an order.’

Matthews, who was the Staff Judge Advocate of the DCNG during the riot, was on the consequential and highly discussed phone call the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021 with McCarthy, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other senior leadership. ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13372839/DC-National-Guard-whistleblower-claims-Trump-stripped-commander-chief-powers-January-6.html


738 posted on 05/05/2024 10:12:51 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny (IN GOD WE TRUST with TRUMP WE STAND)
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To: Lakeside Granny

Stories like this, along with Bannon’s endless warnings of plots being hatched to thwart President Trump’s powers and ByeDone enshrining executive orders, etc, make me seriously doubt IF our RPOTUS will be allowed to govern at all😡😢


740 posted on 05/05/2024 10:33:51 AM PDT by edie1960 (7 )
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