A compelling case for why the National Guard was repeatedly delayed on J6: because Trump would have used their deployment as an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act. Delaying might have made J6 worse, and thwarted the Trump crew's plan in the long term.
https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1473330832660221953
Trump and his dead enders, Flynn, Powell, etc, had talked openly of invoking martial law or the Insurrection Act and "re-running" the election. Thousands of armed soldiers on the streets of DC is exactly what they needed to do that. Chris Miller and his people knew that.
One theory is that Trump wanted the guard to break up street battles between MAGA loyalists and leftist protestors. While the counter protest never happened, the Capitol breach did - and with it allegations that the rioters were antifa or BLM agents. Perfect martial law fodder.
The paper presents a compelling third option between the "optics" excuse and the "the Pentagon was in on the coup" conspiracy theory, neither of which ever sat well with me. It's worth reading.
Remember that there were also supposed to be protests at all 50 state capitals, which mostly fizzled out. Trump could have seized control of the NG, invoked the Insurrection Act, and ordered troops into dozens of cities to put down "antifa violence."
There's a concept that's not talked about much that the Capitol breach took place too early - virtually none of the rioters had brought their guns. If armed rioters had come face to face with an armed and deployed National Guard, you've got dozens of dead and maybe martial law.
Maybe I'm veering into conspiracy theory land. But there are innumerable ways in which J6 could have been so much worse, and deploying thousands of armed NG troops for Trump to seize might have been one.
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