Former acting Defence chief to testify on Jan. 6 response
by Eric Tucker, The Associated Press
Posted May 7, 2021 5:52 pm EDT
Last Updated May 7, 2021 at 5:58 pm EDT
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. With riot cases flooding into Washington s federal court, the Justice Department is under pressure to quickly resolve the least serious cases. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
WASHINGTON Former acting Defence Secretary Christopher Miller is scheduled to testify next week about the Pentagon’s role in responding to the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the latest in a series of high-profile congressional hearings centred on the insurrection.
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Army Maj. Gen. William Walker, Commanding General of the District of Columbia National Guard speaks during a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on Rules and Administration joint hearing Wednesday, March 3, 2021, examining the January 6, attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)
Former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said rioters would not have attacked the Capitol if it wasn't for former President Donald Trump's Jan. 6 speech. Miller, who had been the director of the National Counterterrorism Center until.
Trump s Own Acting Defense Secretary Blames Him For The Capitol Riot It s pretty much definitive that the storming of the Capitol would not have happened without Trump s speech, Christopher Miller said in a Vice interview.
Donald Trump’s former acting defense secretary Christopher Miller blamed the deadly Capitol riot on Trump’s incendiary speech in Washington before the building was stormed by his supporters, he told Vice News in a startling interview revealed Thursday.
“Would anybody have marched on the Capitol, and overrun the Capitol, without the president’s speech? I think it’s pretty much definitive that wouldn’t have happened,” said Miller, a hawkish Special Forces veteran chosen by Trump to replace former Defense Secretary Mark Esper days after the 2020 presidential election.