i totally believe they thought trump was just making shit up and being...trump.
did trump know it would go bad since he did suggest such a large number of national guard? that's much harder to prove. sadly, i think any interview of trump would be fruitless. he'd just say "i don't recall" or something to that effect.
Something about that reeks really badly. What I mean is I'm not buying that motherfucker's claims. That article makes him sound like a silicon valley dudebro using his office to globetrot and brag about it. Honestly though that might have been for the best since it kept them from being around Turmp too much so that he couldn't make serious case for anything while they dismiss all his stupid bullshit. But that story makes him look like a fucking out of touch douchebag that thinks he's fixing the world while he actually accomplished jack fucking shit (I like how the article ends by pointing out none of the claims the guy made with regards to what he supposedly accomplished have actually happened).
One reason why I don't think it makes sense is, I don't think Turmp had any intention of the national guard actually doing anything about the mob (and that's backed up by the fact that they couldn't get a hold of anyone from the White House to get the ok and there seemed to be some deliberate plans to make sure that was the case) so I can't imagine he'd tell them how many they'd need to deal with what he was aiming for. Plus if the National Guard actually had to go in and really fight it out with them, Turmp would be done as President (by that I mean they would have 25th'ed his ass), possibly looking at treason charges, and there'd be hundreds of casualties and the mob would have been slaughtered.
Something tells me that if Turmp said that, he was thinking more that it'd take 10,000 troops to defend him once the coup happened and he was enshrined as President, not that it'd take 10,000 troops to deal with Turmp's mob.
That trio of fuckwits (Miller, Patel, Cohen) need to be investigated. They remind me a lot of the guys that ran Uber. I have a strong hunch they were complicit in what went down and were there to put on a show but since it failed and they know Turmp gives zero fucks about them are now trying to control the narrative to save their own asses. I'm also wondering if the intention wasn't to deliberately set things up to fail to give Turmp justification for shitcanning others and promoting those 3 (recall MyPillow guy's notes). Basically they fuck up getting the guard there, politicians get murdered and/or held hostage, Turmp declares martial law, fires all the DoD people claiming it was their faults, puts sycophant flunkies in and grabs power.
Poor Miller's wife, too stupid to realize that Miller is the reason their rep is shit is because Miller has wiped his ass with his own reputation. Although she might have just been putting on a show as well for the reporter to make Miller's bullshit seem legit.
The part that actually really is troubling is how they're laying the groundwork for more conspiracy shit too. His deep state...um do they not get that's probably happening because of people like him, and Turmp (who was giving people security clearances when they absolutely should not have had them)? Not to mention what Bush Jr and Bush Sr did to totally fuck all of that shit up? Its one thing when the safe guards were there to prevent nuclear war when we had some of the crazy ass generals post WWII, its another when those supposed safe guards are the ones intentionally fucking things up for their own personal whims. My guess is the military command is realizing that if Turmp had been semi-competent, we could be looking at a terrible situation like Germany saw in the 1930s, or Russia under Stalin or Putin, or maybe even just North Korea.
Maybe I'm wrong but I really get a shitty impression of all 3 of them after that article. The writer acts like a fucking Rolling Stones writer (getting Almost Famous vibes), and hope he thought about the possibility behind that conversation ending up on the DoD website being Miller himself.
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