Show threadNonilexJun 11, 2024

4 Jan, 2021 memo from #ChrisMiller, then acting #DefSec requiring “personal authorization” for DC #NationalGuard to employ riot control agents & other tactics on #Jan6. Then he was MIA for hours while the Capitol was under siege.

#Insurrection #Complicit #AidingAndAbetting #MillerMemo

NonilexJun 11, 2024

#Trump 2nd term #mandatory #military service

#ChrisMiller, Trump’s last #DefSec who led the #Pentagon during the chaotic closure of Trump’s tenure in Washington [& author of the #MillerMemo], is among a cluster of fmr admin ofcls & #GOP lawmakers who are proposing a #NationalServiceMandate & other measures as part of #Project2025, the #conservative #HeritageFoundation’s govt-wide game plan.

#conscription #draft #BidenHarris2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/10/trump-military-draft-mandatory-service/

In Trump’s orbit, some muse about mandatory military service

Only 1 percent of the U.S. population serves in the military. Some in Donald Trump’s camp say it’s time more young adults put “some skin in the game.”

The Washington Post