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More Jan. 6 Pence:

artappraiser — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:44:42 +0000

More Jan. 6 Pence:

the VP was giving orders to military while POTUS watched violence on TV "As Pence gave orders to the military, the actual commander in chief was effectively AWOL. Trump spent the afternoon glued to the television watching the drama unfold." https://t.co/Ec1DjMEaYZ
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) July 16, 2021

“Pence delivered a set of directives to the defense chief. 'Get troops here; get them here now,' [he] ordered. 'We’ve got to get the Congress to do its business.' 'Yes, sir,' Miller said.”

25th Amendment or no, the acting DOD secretary treated the VP as the commander in chief.
— Will Saletan (@saletan) July 16, 2021

Yes, highly unusual, unclear what the chain of command really was that day. POTUS watching TV, Acting SECDEF, VP essentially under attack, CJCS calling DC municipal folks.
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) July 16, 2021

note thread has some interesting peanut gallery discussion in replies, like this:

a VP is not in the military chain of command
nor is the 3d in line to the presidency, the Speaker.
neither has constitutional authority to give orders to the military.
— Rick Mazzoli (@RickMazzoli) July 16, 2021

Er, did Maggie mean to signal

artappraiser — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 04:05:47 +0000

In reply to Haberman recommends this

Er, did Maggie mean to signal that stuff is coming out on Pence now too? I just see his name is trending on Twiiter, these are currently at the top -

Wow. Watching @DeadlineWH right now where they’re discussing Pence’s actions on January 6th. Pence refused to get into a Secret Service car while evacuating because he feared a coup in which the Secret Service was involved.
— Nick Walden Poublon (@NWPinPDX) July 15, 2021

Pence refused Secret Service's wishes to evacuate him from the Capitol on Jan. 6.

"I’m not getting in the car," VP told lead agent. "If I get in that vehicle, you guys are taking off. I’m not getting in the car.”

This and more from I ALONE CAN FIX IThttps://t.co/KnI2Rn2WKt
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 15, 2021

The Trump Effect:

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 03:43:49 +0000

In reply to Haberman recommends this

The Trump Effect: countervailing results And options, neither good. Trump's illegal use of the military (often unmarked forces indiscernible from irregular street militias) created hesitancy to call out the Guard and other support - creating an enforcement vacuum for DC when the city needed help. So pick up 911 and get criminal marauders or out down the phone and pray.

Haberman recommends this

artappraiser — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 03:32:04 +0000

In reply to Mark Milley’s Fight to Stop Trump from Striking Iran

Haberman recommends this piece (and she's writing a book herself):

This is a really good account of Milley’s real-time fears on military action, which were not illegal nuke launches but domestic use of the military after a summer of Trump calling for the insurrection act in cities and a potential strike on Iran @sbg1 https://t.co/0dTymLMdAS
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 16, 2021

When folks try to say that Jan 6 wasn’t that bad, recall the reaction of the top officials in the government in response.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 16, 2021

excerpt

artappraiser — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 03:19:37 +0000

In reply to Mark Milley’s Fight to Stop Trump from Striking Iran

excerpt

[...] This account of a behind-the-scenes struggle over Iran involving Milley and Trump—a secret backdrop to the public drama unleashed by Trump’s unprecedented refusal to accept the Presidential-election results—comes from some of the nearly two hundred interviews, with a variety of sources, that I have conducted along with my husband, the Times reporter Peter Baker, for a book on the Trump Presidency that will be published next year. Some of the other details reported here about Milley’s actions have been disclosed in recent days by the authors of two new books about Trump and 2020—Michael Bender, of the Wall Street Journal, and Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, of the Washington Post—and been independently confirmed by me. Milley has not addressed the revelations publicly.

In a statement released on Thursday, reacting to reports about the Rucker and Leonnig book, Trump said, “I never threatened, or spoke about, to anyone, a coup of our Government.” He added, “If I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley.” Trump said he selected Milley for the post only because he wanted to spite his then Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, who, he said, “could not stand him.” “I often act counter to people’s advice who I don’t respect,” Trump noted. The former President posited that Milley, a career military officer, was allowing these accounts to circulate “to curry favor with the Radical Left.” [....]