Vice News Interview
Vice: “Do you think the president was responsible for what happened on the 6th?”
Miller: “I don’t know, it seems cause and effect, yeah.”
Miller Asking Miller: “The question is would anybody have marched on the Capitol, and overrun the Capitol, without the president’s speech?”
Miller Responds to Miller: I think it’s pretty much definitive that wouldn’t have happened.”
Miller Asking Miller: “Did he know he was enraging the crowd to do that?”
Miller Responding to Miller: “I don’t know.”
Defense Secretary Switch
Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on November 9 as noted by Military.Com. Mark Esper was appointed acting defense secretary the same day.
“I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (unanimously confirmed by the Senate), will be Acting Secretary of Defense, effective immediately,” Trump said. “Chris will do a GREAT job! Mark Esper has been terminated. I would like to thank him for his service.”
“There’s currently a Senate-confirmed Deputy Secretary of Defense — David Norquist,” noted Steve Vladeck, University of Texas School of Law professor who specializes in national security legal matters, Monday on Twitter. “Under 10 U.S.C. § 132(b), [Norquist] is supposed to become Acting Secretary in the event of a vacancy. Unless Trump fired him, too.”.
Vladeck added, “Miller isn’t eligible to be *Secretary* of Defense because he hasn’t been retired from the military for seven years.”
Miller will be Trump’s fifth defense secretary following Esper; Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer, who served in the position for a few days during to Esper’s nomination process; Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing Co. executive; and Mattis, a retired Marine general who was confirmed by the Senate to the position in 2017.
Miller was Trump’s 5th Defense Secretary
It seems Trump had a hard time finding a good secretary.
If the interview is any indication, he finally found one.
Mish
At a minimum Trump knew or should have known that his actions were going to cause an insurrection at the capital. Had the insurrectionists cornered House or Senate members they would have likely held them hostage or worse. But let’s be real, Trump not only knew what he was doing he was actively encouraging and wanted that result. Tragically, Trump has constantly been able to skirt the laws of this country while using the justice system as a shield for his destructive behavior, and he used this behavior while he was in office. His actions only encourage more Americans to try to skirt the law – it is time Trump is held accountable for his actions, either it be tax fraud or the clear instigation of an insurrection on the capital. Not only is Trump guilty but many many Republicans of every stripe including Republicans in the highest levels of power are guilty of aiding and abetting the criminal actions of Trump. All of the elected officials that aided Trump and all of the AM radio talk show stations and their hosts that actively try to sow the seeds of hatred and discord in this country should be held accountable and we should start by prosecuting Trump and doing what we can to recall and throw out of office the elected co-conspirators and boycott the radio stations and their hosts. These people are not good for the USA and are doing it because hatred apparently sells – until we the people make sure it doesn’t.
Miller is looking for a job, doesn’t want to get blackballed, er.. scratch that, cancelled.
Wait, isn’t Trump gone? Why are we still talking about Trump?
Speaking of gone, where is Biden?
The coup failed to overtrow the government. link to youtu.be
There would have been no attack on the capitol without Trump. Trump should be arrested and probably is closer to criminal prosecution than we know. We should have a federal prison on an island the way Australia does for their worst federal offenders. Law and Order!!!!
So, according to your logic, all the people shot by police that led to riots should be arrested. After all, without them there wouldn’t have been riots.
There’s actually a lot of evidence that Trump and his minions coordinated with various leaders at the event. DC is still investigating. Hopefully it will come out but of course we’ll just the fake news bit again and again.
There would have been no attack on the Capitol if Trump’s public address system failed.
How dumb are U kimosabe?
Who cares about this losers opinion? I don’t know anyone or have heard of anyone who was compelled to act unlawfully directly because of the President’s words. No one reading this was compelled to act unlawfully. It is patently arrogant to believe that others, in their apparent diminished capacities to judge right or wrong, was somehow compelled to act unlawfully. The rioters were misguided fools with little regard for the law and the rights of others.
I’m fine with the protest. Got a little out of hand, but looked like a rowdy sports crowd, soccer houligans maybe, comparatively speaking to a dozen cities smolderng in this country all summer long. A ‘riot’ may be a little aggressive, but is still within the realm of sanity.
Unlike all the people throwing around the term ‘armed insurrection.’ They are the most deranged and dangerous people involved here, I assure you. The media has used that term over 2,500 times without a single gun seized
I’m sorry you are incapable, but..
“armed robbery”….A person commits armed robbery when he takes something from someone else, using violence or intimidation, while carrying a dangerous weapon…
Attemption to thwart the ordained government processes using violence and intimidation, while carrying a dangerous weapon….”armed insurrection”.
Hope that helps.
So, what was the dangerous weapon? I think you missed on that part.
viking horns … zip ties … lectern ?
I have to admit, most of them had two arms.
So far as I know, the police did, too, though after the insurrection, one was dead, another lost 3 fingers, and all told, 140 were injured.
Feel like Miller is trying to vindicate himself and engage in damage control. His reputation suffered a bit under Trump. And yea, it should have been obvious to everyone what was likely to happen, except if you were a member of the GOP who signed on.
He’s been pretty outspoken ever since the riots. He’s just now getting much attention. I think he wants everyone to know he was never a Trump yes-man, just a pro trying to do the job. That’s how I read Miller.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Is this video supposed to be a spoof of some kind. Is Vice jumping a mile high stack of sharks or what?
Don’t just read the snippets@Mish included. Watch the video. It’s hilarious.
They should have split the sound so that the voices are on one side and the music is on the other. That way you could just listen to the music. Which is wonderfully done. Dang, that’s good music. Makes me want to watch The Parallax View again.
And it might be fun to randomly shuffle the various questions and answers. They’d make more sense that way.
I’m taking even bets that Vice is not Trump’s number one supporter. Any takers?
Ok, in a similar vein, here we go:
I think everybody agrees that Trump was an idiot.
Do you really think that? Maybe you better consult the polls. Tens of millions think Trump walks on water.
Yea, there’s lots of idiots.
Warning sign of companies that are poorly run and managed are high turnover. And yet Trump is hailed as a “great manager”
It’s usually Warren Harding who holds Worst President Ever title.
People in the opposite party always say the last president was the worst in history. I remember Republicans saying Clinton was the worst. Then Dems saying it was Bush, then Rep’s saying it was Obama and now Dems saying it’s Trump. Soon it will be Rep’s saying it’s Biden. In other words half the country thinks the president is the worst ever.
Not surprised people around the world don’t like Trump because he said very early on that he was putting America first (that’s why he is beloved by millions here still) and that he wasn’t that interested in the rest of the world unless it benefited America.
I think most people would agree Trump is the most polarizing president but I don’t think he’s the worst.
Trump never put America first. He said that but that’s the con game he plays. I’m sure on some level you know this. He has a long history of being a conman. If he put America first, wouldn’t he have stood up to Putin in Helsinki in 2018? Do you, Texas Tim, contribute to his PAC?
Compare him to a couple other presidents. Bush for example got the US into the Iraq war on false pretenses (WMD’s). A war that’s killed 1+ million civilians (potentially war crimes), thousands of US soldiers and cost well over a trillion dollars with no end in sight. Likely this war led to Syria and Libya as well. Now that’s some serious long term harm to the USA. Or how about LBJ, he got the US into the Vietnam war again on false pretenses (false flag Gulf of Tonklin). A war that lasted more than a decade and cost 50K US lives plus again countless civilians. More importantly it was a big contributor to the US running deficits that ultimately caused Nixon to exit the gold standard. Things were so bad for LBJ that countless protests had the famous chant ‘hey hey LBJ, how many boys did you kill today’. LBJ didn’t even bother to run for re-election. Both those presidents did far more harm to the USA than Trump.
“Both those presidents did far more harm to the USA than Trump.” And that’s your standard? He didn’t mess up so bad? Tell us what did he actually got accomplished of any significance? Mish had quite a long list of his bad performances some months ago. Bush left us a in financial quagmire of epic proportions. But so did Trump because he sat on vital information for weeks probably figuring out how he could benefit from other’s disaster. Plus he deliberately tore down the institutions of government for his own selfish gain threatening the democracy itself. I do not recall any such president in all of my history classes. Many of them were lampooned as kings but none of them tried to stage a coup. I hope that someday people will be able to identify a true narcissist and understand the dangers they pose.
I don’t think he’s an idiot. He’s certainly smarter then many other currently elected politicians. Like AOC for example. I would agree he’s an obnoxious jerk.