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Lot of tea leaves here. But on this decision to bring in the Nat Guard, some reports say Sec Def and Chair of JCS simply didn't talk to Trump and Pence gave the order. In those reports Trump's portrayed as just checked out, uninterested. But other reports say that ...
2/ Trump at first "resisted" the idea the of calling in the Nat Guard, apparently because he liked what he was seeing with storming the Capitol. The most plausible explanation of this reporting is that President Trump refused to authorize this and the people around him ...
3/ either overruled him or just ignored him. Now perhaps it didn't happen directly. Maybe they knew he was going to say know and they just didn't ask him. Note too hints that the National Security Advisor is preparing to resign and supporting Pence over Trump.
4/ All of it suggests that command and control of the government is starting to break down. Now, in some ways maybe that's a good thing. But just ignoring the constitution isn't great. We have impeachment. We have the 25th Am. We have a situation where the constitutional ...
5/ order itself seems to be breaking down.
