General Milley Downplayed BLM Riots to Prevent Trump From Invoking Insurrection Act

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"Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, tried to downplay the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots in an effort to prevent Donald Trump from invoking the Insurrection Act, arguing that they were mainly centered around the use of “spray paint.”

That’s according to the new book, ‘Peril’, written by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.

Despite the violent demonstrations quickly spreading across the country, Milley continued to insist that they had only impacted two cities and were relatively sedate, echoing CNN’s ludicrous “fiery, but most peaceful” description of the riots.

“They used spray paint, Mr President, that’s not an insurrection. […] We’re a country of 330 million people. You’ve got these penny packet protests,” Milley allegedly told Trump.

Milley apparently told Trump that most of the riots only involved around 300 people and that they paled in significance to the 1968 Washington riots caused by the assassination of MLK and the Battle of Fort Sumter in 1861, which started the Civil War.

The riots took mere days to spread to virtually every major city in the country, with looting, arson and violent attacks becoming commonplace, eventually causing around $2 billion dollars in property damage as well as at least 19 deaths and over 17,000 arrests.

At one point, demonstrators took over an entire area of downtown Seattle, completely obliterating official law and order for a number of weeks.

Trump’s failure to act strongly and decisively led to him looking weak, derailing a lot of momentum he would have had going into the election.

According to other reports, Trump wanted to invoke the Insurrection Act and put Milley in charge of National Guard troops to end the unrest, leading the two to have a shouting match where Milley refused to take charge.

Back in June, Milley appeared to side with the kind of ‘woke’ rhetoric spewed by far-left groups like BLM when he told the House Armed Services Committee that he was concerned about “white rage” in the United States.

As we highlighted earlier this week, Milley was also accused of treason by Trump after it emerged that he had promised to warn China ahead of any military operations.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson labeled the revelation, “One of the scariest things that has ever happened in this country.”"
SOURCE URL: https://summit.news/2021/09/17/general-milley-downplayed-blm-riots-to-prevent-trump-from-invoking-insurrection-act/


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  • Posted by Dobrien 2 years, 6 months ago
    Huge distraction. FUQ Milley and his two -faced worthless anti -Trump lies.
    AZ audit coming Friday /Durham showing some cards/Clinton campaign in focus/ Border crisis/ Maxwell/Hunter/China Defector/ Aussies revolt/ live TV vote subtraction of Elder votes (400,000)/
    Red October
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 2 years, 6 months ago
    You'd think someone made into our oo-weeee almighty Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff wouldn't buy into sad Woke joke that's the Marxist Critical Race THEORY apparently for political gain, but that's how Mark Milley in a news story first really came to me dino's attention.
    Why drive a wedge between white and black Americans trained to fight side-by-side? Strategically speaking, that does not make any sense~~yeah, that coming from a general with stars all over his shoulders and a bouquet of ribbons all over his chest.
    But Milley playing down the BLM riots that looted when not burning down black-owned businesses does in a can't fix stupid libtarded kinda way.
    Bet he agreed with Candidate Cackles Killary when she said, "My dream is open borders."
    On a strategic level we're still seeing how well that works out as long as you do not only read and watch Fake News.
    Hey, libs, think the USA wasn't endangered by a first strike when Milley called the top CCP general to say, "Hey, before that crazy as a loon Trump ever nukes you, expect me to call first!"
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