Now, we've learned that the officer who shot and killed unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, 36, during the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, received a promotion and a $36,000 bonus.
There were no negative consequences from his indiscretion that day. Instead, Capt. Michael Byrd, 56, was arrested despite a lengthy disciplinary history that included leaving a loaded handgun in a public restroom at the Capitol Visitor Center and discharging a gun “inappropriately.” Regardless, he was hailed as a hero of democracy. A Maryland police officer who drove near his home while off-duty tried to stop him from entering a high school football field, calling him a “racist son of a bitch,” was again arrested while off-duty, according to a published letter. I used abusive language. It was reported last week by the Republican-led House Government Oversight Subcommittee.
Byrd's internal affairs record is missing three entries, subcommittee chairman Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) said in a letter to current Capitol Police Chief Thomas Munger. .
Convenient spin on the left
Loudermilk was used so effectively to undermine Byrd and Donald Trump and his supporters that the January 6th riot provided the Biden administration with an excuse to weaponize federal law enforcement against them. I'm asking questions about Bird and everything else.
The J6 riot was not a riot, but escalated into an out-of-control riot after then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was denied information on potential threats that day and was denied National Guard support as requested. It was a protest.
Looking back soberly, the new Trump administration can ensure that the story of J6 is rewritten to reflect the truth of that tragic day, rather than the lies spun by Democratic Party Chair Emeritus Nancy Pelosi's J6 Committee. It will be.
Sand is an important witness to history. Pelosi made him a scapegoat and quickly fired him, but she knew he had begged for overwhelming support from the National Guard.
He needed clearance from the Capitol Police Board, but Pelosi and then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell overrode the two sergeants-at-arms who had to give him the OK. Mr. McConnell's proposal went to Ms. Pelosi, and Ms. Pelosi's representatives continued to say, “It needs to be thoroughly implemented to get Ms. Pelosi's approval,'' Mr. Sund said.
However, the National Guard did not arrive for hours. Pelosi, as well as other Pentagon officials so deranged by Trump, delayed their arrival, believing that Trump would declare martial law and repurpose troops to cling to power.
This was the delusion that most troubled then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, the most powerful military man in Washington.
After the 2020 election, Milley was constantly telling people about the threat of a “coup” by Trump, Washington Post reporters Carol Leonig and Philip Rucker wrote in their book “I Can Solve It Alone.” Rather, he writes that he portrays himself as a defender of democracy. Rather than an emotionally weak man rebelling against his commander-in-chief.
In the days leading up to the riot, Milley told his staff that President Trump's proposal to deploy the National Guard on January 6 was just “an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and bring in the military.”
The book follows an increasingly paranoid Millie as he responds to phone calls from nameless “friends” who fuel him in his delusions.
Millie came to see Trump as Hitler. “This is a Capitol moment,” he told aides. “The Gospel of the Führer.”
Milley appears to have become radicalized after the June 2020 riot in Lafayette Square in front of the White House. The violence became so violent that President Trump and his family had to be evacuated to a bunker by the Secret Service.
Millie's grudge against Trump
Two days later, President Trump ordered the clearing of Lafayette Square to reassure the public by appearing at St. John's Church, where an incendiary bomb had been dropped the night before.
Milley was more upset about the criticism she received for appearing in uniform at a presidential photo shoot than the fact that the president had to take shelter in a bunker.
During these violent riots, police officers in the nation's capital were “ordered not to assist the White House,” Sund says, no doubt in response to a request from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who loathes President Trump. It is said to be a thing.
Sund said officers in Washington, D.C., were “so furious that they had to watch a bloody Secret Service agent being taken away in an ambulance” without being able to do anything. He then called then-D.C. Police Chief Pete Newsham and asked for assurances that if there was a problem at the Capitol, D.C. police would come and help. Mr. Newsham retired five days before the Jan. 6 riot, but the D.C. Police Department “couldn't help me any further,” Mr. Sund said, and sent 1,000 officers to help him.
But when it came to the National Guard, Sund ran into one obstacle after another.
First it was Pelosi, then the Pentagon.
After his troops battled the rioters for 80 minutes, just before the first window was broken, Sund finally received approval from Pelosi to deploy the National Guard.
He then called Gen. William Walker, commander of the Washington, D.C. National Guard, but Walker needed permission from Chris Miller, Trump's acting defense secretary, who suffered from the same Trump paranoia as Milley.
It took four hours for the National Guard to arrive. But by then it was all over.
Walker's hands were tied two days earlier by a bizarre memo issued by Miller ordering “unprecedented restrictions on the D.C. National Guard” to apply on January 5 and January 6, Sund said. writes in his book “Courage Under Fire.''
In a Jan. 4, 2021, memo entitled “Employment Guidelines,” Miller wrote that without his “personal authorization,” the D.C. National Guard “will not be provided with weapons, ammunition, bayonets, batons, or ammunition.” It is not possible to do so.” . . “helmets and bulletproof vests'' or “physically interact with protesters…employ riot control personnel…share equipment with law enforcement…utilize helicopters and other air assets.'' etc. In other words, they couldn't do anything.
And they did nothing until it was too late.
Creepy WaPo editorial
Another important thing happened the day Miller released his memo. An op-ed signed by 10 former secretaries of defense, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Jim Mattis, was published in the Washington Post, warning that President Trump could use the military to hang on. force. They warned that “civilian and military officials who direct or carry out such measures” could face “criminal penalties.”
Mr. Miller got the message. He later testified to Congress that he wrote the memo because he feared President Trump would “invoke the Insurrection Act to politicize the military in an anti-democratic way.”
As a result, Sund was unable to get the National Guard backup he needed to stop the Capitol occupation. Mayhem was inevitable.
Conveniently for Democrats, the riot prevented the efforts of Trump supporters in Congress from delaying the certification of the electoral votes, making it the perfect branding move to make Trump and his supporters look bad.
Ironically, Secretary Sand, who did more than anyone else to save the Capitol that day, was treated in disgrace and forced to leave before he was eligible for a pension, while all those who failed were acquitted. It is.
