Rep. Paul Gosar believes that General Mark Milley ought to hang for his alleged crimes and his role in the January 6 breach.
Gosar issued his judgment against Milley in a newsletter following testimony from the former Chief of Capitol Police on January 6, Steven Sund. The former chief testified to the House Committee on Administration that the Pentagon delayed the deployment of the National Guard even after approval was given. As Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Milley was one of the top officials in the Pentagon.
“After I had received approval to call in the National Guard, I had to beg Pentagon officials to send us help. I was repeatedly denied assistance,” said Sund.
Gosar described Milley as the “homosexual-promoting, BLM activist” chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Gosar said that Milley’s role in January 6 was less surprising, considering his past coordinations with Rep. Nancy Pelosi and the Chinese military.
“In a better society, quislings like the strange sodomy-promoting General Milley would be hung,” said Gosar. “He had one boss: President Trump, and instead he was secretly meeting with Pelosi and coordinating with her to hurt Trump. That is, when he wasn’t also secretly coordinating and sharing intelligence with the Chinese military. How this traitor remains in office is a question we need answered.”
The House Committee on Administration, Subcommittee on Oversight held the hearing as a counter to the years-long inquiry conducted by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (January 6 Committee).
The chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk, said that the committee failed to investigate “the real security failures” that caused the breach.
“Throughout nearly two years of work the Select Committee currently operated on hearsay to fit their narrative,” said Loudermilk. “Their final report was a political weapon focused on attacking former President Donald Trump and his supporters instead of how to prevent another incident.”
The January 6 Committee final report downplayed the responsibilities of intelligence and law enforcement agencies, placing all blame squarely on Trump’s shoulders.
“Were agencies perfect in their preparations for January 6th and their responses as the violence unfolded? Of course not,” stated the report. “But the shortfall of communications, intelligence and law enforcement around January 6th was much less about what they did or did not know. It was more about what they could not know. The President of the United States inciting a mob to march on the Capitol and impede the work of Congress is not a scenario our intelligence and law enforcement communities envisioned for this country.”
The January 6 Committee interviewed Milley in November 2021 about the Jan. 6 breach. Milley said that he was in his office speaking about transition issues with Biden’s head of his transition team at the time, Christine Wormuth, who now serves as the Army Secretary. As the crowd built up, Milley testified that he went into the Defense Secretary Chris Miller’s office. Miller had called in then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, then-Army Chief of Staff James McConville, and National Guard Bureau Chief Daniel Hokanson. According to Milley, the meeting began at 2:30 pm.
Between 2:30 and 3:00 pm, Milley said he told Miller to tell then-Attorney General Jeff Rosen to deploy all Washington, D.C. cops to the Capitol. Milley also directed Hokanson to get the Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia National Guards to deploy a total of 2,000 volunteers to the Capitol.
Milley denied knowledge of the Pentagon denying the Maryland Governor from deploying their National Guard to the Capitol.
“I am not witness to anyone deliberately trying to slow that down or trying to prevent the National Guard or anyone else, once the event was going on,” said Milley.
Sund testified to Congress that he began calling for help at around 1 pm. Just before 2:30 pm, at around the same time that Milley reported meeting with McCarthy, Sund has testified that he asked Army Lieutenant General Walter Piatt for National Guard Deployment. Piatt reportedly told Sund that he disliked the optics of military members alongside police in front of the Capitol, and that he wouldn’t recommend deployment to McCarthy.