“One of the most vexing questions about Jan. 6 is why the National Guard took more than three hours to arrive at the Capitol after D.C. authorities and Capitol Police called for immediate assistance. The Pentagon’s restraint in allowing the Guard to get to the Capitol was not simply a reflection of officials’ misgivings about the deployment of military force during the summer 2020 protests, nor was it simply a concern about “optics” of having military personnel at the Capitol. Instead, evidence is mounting that the most senior defense officials did not want to send troops to the Capitol because they harbored concerns that President Donald Trump might utilize the forces’ presence in an attempt to hold onto power”
So they admitted to minimum insubordination against the commander-in-chief earning them a court marshal… Or at most they committed a federal crime? Which is it
That’s a scary prospect. Do you send in help and possibly hand the outgoing president the tools for a coup, or do you let it ride and hope for the best? To be a fly on the wall in those discussions.
You follow the constitution. And that says Trump is commander in chief, until he’s not.
Unless you can prove he’s giving an unlawful order.