![]() ![]() Read more Trump's Lafayette Park Photo-Op Made Military Fear Being Used Politically In the Inspector General's report, Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy supports Miller's account, saying that Miller "made it clear that the military would not be involved in certifying the election results and that '10 different news agencies' asked him about military use and martial law." military personnel on the Capitol, I would have created the greatest Constitutional crisis probably since the Civil War." And the reason for that was I knew if the morning of the 6th or prior if we put U.S. Miller stated that he "made a very deliberate decision that I would not put U.S. He also cited a Januopen letter from 10 former Secretaries of Defense warning the DoD not to use the military in a manner antithetical to the U.S. Miller was an ally installed as the Acting SecDef to facilitate a coup. military forces at the Capitol, period." He cited media stories alleging that the President's advisors were pushing him to declare martial law to invalidate the election and that Mr. Miller told us, "There was absolutely no way. Read more Loyal Donald Trump Pardoned Mike Flynn, Who'd Gone Down a QAnon Rabbit HoleĪccording to the Department of Defense Inspector General's report on the Pentagon reaction to the elections and protests, Watnick-Cohen or Patel Asia or the Middle East another firing or a declaration of martial law: it is now clear that Flynn's machinations were taken seriously in the Pentagon, so much so that Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller held back on the use of the military on January 6. Mark Milley thought another national security official was about to be dismissed-maybe himself. ![]() According to Carol Leonnig and Phillip Rucker's "I Alone Can Fix It," Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. "Sir, the election is over," Cohen-Watnick told Flynn, according to his own account in "Betrayal." "It's time to move on," the former aide told Flynn.įlynn, according to Karl's account, shot back: "You're a quitter! This is not over! Don't be a quitter!" It was the last time the two of them spoke.Īs Newsweek previously reported, Pentagon Chief of Staff Kash Patel, rather than Cohen-Watnick (who was traveling with acting Secretary of Defense Miller in Asia and not the Middle East) was mysteriously called back to Washington. there was going to be an epic showdown over the election results."Ĭohen-Watnick was needed "to get orders signed, that ballots needed to be seized, and that extraordinary measures needed to be taken to stop Democrats from stealing the election," Flynn reportedly said. In "Betrayal," Flynn is quoted telling Cohen-Watnick: "We need you. According to Karl, Flynn called Cohen-Watnick, who previously worked for him at DIA and whom Flynn had hired in the first month of the Trump administration to staff the National Security Council, to return from the Middle East "immediately because there were big things about to happen." ![]() In his new book, "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show," Jonathan Karl writes that Flynn and Powell tried to enlist Trump's post-election appointee Ezra Cohen-Watnick to help overturn the election.
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