Dear Alan and friends: can you please explain how these retired admirals and generals are Democratic, Trump-hating, and biased? We're waiting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/opinion/january-6-trump-military.html
OK I finally got to read some of what they said on another site that explained the Times article. The NY Tines original article was blocked for me. The Times seems to have it in for me as well as Trump.
Leaving side the fact that politicains put these generals up to it like they did before the 2016 election, there are a few facts they and the Democrat hearings aren't revealing.
First of all, Congress is responsible for protecting the capitol with the Capitol Police, not the Executive Branch. The President doesn't control it or man it. The military is not supposed to get involved with police operations except under special circumstances.
Second, the fact is the DoD run by Trump offered additional troops to Commander Sund of the Capitol Police before the demonstrations and riot to supplement his forces. He turned them down. Later, when it started to get worse, he asked one or both of the Sargeant of Arms of the Senate and House run by Democrats who he reports whether he should get more troops. He (or they) told him to hold off only later agreeing to let him get more troops.
Pelosi fired both Sargeants and the Commander on Jan 7th for incompetence and dereliction of duty. So now they're twisting it around to make the President derelict. I'll repeat. The president isn't responsible for the Capitol Police doing their job right. Why aren't you calling for democrat Speaker Pelosi and Democrat Senate Leader Schumer to be fired for dereliction of duty? They were in charge? You realize of course, if there was a trial now, they would have to explain their failure in court under oath. I doubt if Pelosi or Schumer want to appear in court to explain why they screwed up. Not like the hearings now where it's all one-sided and you're only hearing half the evidence.
In any case, even if you want to blame Trump, OK. So impeach him again for the third time. It's not a criminal case. He was acting as president. Not doing what people think you should do is not criminal. Many people feel Biden is derelict for not protecting our borders. Should Republicans impeach Biden next year for dereliction when they take over congress? Be careful what you hope for now. The pendulum swings both ways.
So Congress has to impeach and try him. Other than that, the public could throw him out of the office and deny him a second term through the ballot box, which is what they did. So he's been punished. In any case, I don't see a criminal charge because constitutionally, the House of Representatives is responsible for deciding if a president committed a high crime or misdemeanor, not an Attorney General (AJ), Federal prosecutor, grand jury or trial jury in a Federal court. The AJ won't charge him for these reasons. If he does, the Supreme Court will throw out the charges or any conviction. The AJ has no authroity against a Pressident. Only Congress does. Didn't we all learn that at the end of the Mueller investigation when Mueller and the AJ sent Mueller's report to Congress and told them it's up to them to handle the case, imposing an impeachment if they decided, not the Attorney General.
It's all politics and the upcoming election. Democrats are just hoping Trump will save their hides again.
