(02-10-2021, 10:54 PM)Bchbunnie4 Wrote: Only two people have the authority to call up the national guard in Washington DC. That is the President and the Secretary of Defense. Neither of those positions are held by Mike Pence.

https://dc.ng.mil/About-Us/

Just because it's not supposed to happen doesn't mean it didn't happen.
And what if the Secretary of Defense called them against Trump's wishes?
What if Christopher Miller testifies, "Yes, I called them.  The President didn't want me to but I did."
Or what if some documentary evidence proves that, even if Miller won't admit it?
What would you say then?
Or what if he says, "the two of us hatched a plan to delay calling the guard and make it look like incompetence.  We were hoping the riot would end up doing enough damage that they wouldn't be able to re-convene and we could declare martial law over the whole country"
What would you say then?

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This is an odd crowd.
You believe that multiple states, including Republican led states, violated the Constitution as a favor to Joe Biden, yet your reply to the idea that the Vice President or Secretary of Defense might have gone outside the normal chain of command, you can't believe that. "Oh of course not. The law says it doesn't work like that. So it didn't work like that, that day."

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