{"id":1584075,"date":"2022-08-02T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584075"},"modified":"2022-08-02T08:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:02:49","slug":"inside-liz-cheneys-coordinated-effort-to-prevent-troop-deployment-before-jan-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-liz-cheneys-coordinated-effort-to-prevent-troop-deployment-before-jan-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Liz Cheney\u2019s Coordinated Effort To Prevent Troop Deployment Before Jan. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finside-liz-cheneys-coordinated-effort-to-prevent-troop-deployment-before-jan-6%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584075&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Days before the Capitol riot provoked a years-long effort to impeach, prosecute, and politically malign former President Donald Trump, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney coordinated efforts to deter the very actions she now claims haunt the former president. <\/p>\n<p>Cheney has blamed Trump for not ordering the National Guard to defend the Capitol complex, even though multiple sources confirm that he authorized their deployment days prior to the Jan. 6 rally at the White House and riot at the Capitol. Security officials in charge of the Capitol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawenforcementtoday.com\/uscp-timeline-exonerates-trump-national-guard-turned-down-prior-to-1-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declined<\/a> to call up troops to protect it, <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-06\/USCPJan.6Timeline.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">government records show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Cheney herself seems to have orchestrated opposition to use of the military to quell election-related unrest, allegedly organizing a Washington Post op-ed on Jan. 3, 2021, signed by every living former defense secretary. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory,\u201d the headline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power\/2021\/01\/03\/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read<\/a>. It went on to threaten any military official who thought any use of the military might be a good idea. \u201cCivilian and military officials who direct or carry out such measures would be accountable, including potentially facing criminal penalties, for the grave consequences of their actions on our republic,\u201d the op-ed warned.<\/p>\n<p>The op-ed was allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/liz-cheney-defense-op-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">organized<\/a> by Cheney, whose father was secretary of defense under President George H.W. Bush before serving as President George W. Bush\u2019s vice president. Eric Edelman, a national security adviser to Dick Cheney, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/letter-from-bidens-washington\/forced-to-choose-between-trumps-big-lie-and-liz-cheney-the-house-gop-chooses-the-lie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> the New Yorker the Wyoming lawmaker \u201cwas the one who generated\u201d the piece for the Post. <\/p>\n<p>Now Rep. Cheney has adopted Trump\u2019s supposed inaction on the National Guard as a primary line of attack. On \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ltss8DPv0j0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News Sunday<\/a>,\u201d Cheney again depicted Trump as an apathetic leader who dismissed pleas to deploy the National Guard while the Capitol was under siege.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are several witnesses who say they met with President Trump on January 4th,\u201d said Bret Baier, \u201cand he offered some 20,000 National Guardsmen to protect the Capitol building on January 6th but the offer was rejected. Is that true?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis own acting secretary of defense says that\u2019s not true,\u201d Cheney said, highlighting committee testimony from former Acting Secretary Christopher Miller who told the panel Trump made no order to deploy the National Guard. \u201cSo the notion that somehow he issued an order is not consistent with the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Except the president did issue authorization for D.C. leaders to call up the National Guard for pre-emptive reinforcements days before the Capitol riot. While Mayor Muriel Bowser took limited advantage of the extra troops, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s sergeant at arms rejected or stonewalled the offer six times, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/sund-riot-national-guard\/2021\/01\/10\/fc2ce7d4-5384-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund. Pelosi\u2019s office was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/insurrection-at-the-capitol\/2021\/01\/15\/957239755\/pelosi-taps-honore-retired-military-leader-to-lead-capitol-security-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> concerned the guard\u2019s deployment was bad \u201coptics\u201d after having spent the prior summer decrying the use of federal law enforcement to put down left-wing insurrections. <\/p>\n<p>When Trump sent reinforcements to secure federal buildings under attack in Portland, Pelosi condemned the extra law enforcement as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerPelosi\/status\/1284294427654197248?s=20&#038;t=R3Xk97J_MItDnudCUlxaRQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stormtroopers<\/a>.\u201d After days of sustained riots wreaked havoc across Washington D.C., Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/501215-pelosi-scary-to-see-uniformed-troops-on-steps-of-lincoln-memorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> the sight of uniformed troops protecting the Lincoln Memorial \u201cstunning\u201d and \u201cscary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The campaign to fight any use of troops to restore order during the left\u2019s widespread and coordinated summer of rage was so effective that Gen. Mark Milley issued an abject apology for merely appearing in uniform at a site that had been ravaged by leftist arsonists. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy presence in that moment, and in that environment, created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/i-should-not-have-been-there-milley-apologizes-role-trump-n1229876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Milley said<\/a> about appearing in front of a historic church across the street from the White House. The night before, left-wing arsonists had targeted the church as part of a riot that besieged the White House and led to the injuring of dozens of Park Police and Secret Service officers.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser\u2019s use of guard troops on Jan. 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/dc-mayor-muriel-bowser-thought-she-needed-just-few-hundred-national-guard-unarmed-1661320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extended<\/a> to unarmed troops restricted to traffic control and removed from protests. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[N]o DCNG personnel shall be armed during this mission, and at no time, will DCNG personnel or assets be engaged in domestic surveillance, searches, or seizures of [U.S.] persons,\u201d she directed to law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p>Although Cheney and her colleagues with the Select Committee have sought to indict Trump as responsible for a slow response from the National Guard on Jan. 6, the panel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/25\/both-warned-of-potential-j6-violence-meadows-put-national-guard-on-standby-while-pelosi-refused-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">own findings<\/a> have undermined the probe\u2019s point. In December, the committee released a trove of private communications from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who pledged the National Guard would be ready to maintain order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Meadows sent an email to an individual about the events on January 6 and said that the National Guard would be present to \u2018protect pro Trump people\u2019 and that many more would be available on standby,\u201d the committee wrote, as if revealing some grand scandal to help their case.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Miller and former Chief of Staff of the Department of Defense Kash Patel went on Sean Hannity\u2019s program to <a href=\"https:\/\/fightwithkash.com\/articles\/video-45-authorized-national-guard-cheney-caught-lying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dispel<\/a> committee accusations that the president was indifferent to the National Guard. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Trump unequivocally authorized up to 20,000 National Guardsmen and women for us to utilize,\u201d Patel said. <\/p>\n<p>Miller, whom Cheney cited as evidence of Trump\u2019s negligence, corroborated Patel\u2019s testimony on air. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be clear,\u201d Miller said, \u201cthe president was doing exactly what I expect the commander in chief to do, any commander in chief to do. He was looking at the broad threats against the United States and he brought this up on his own. We did not bring it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. 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