26,000 National Guard troops from across the nation were deployed to Washington by Wednesday to guard against imminent right wing violence and insurrection, perhaps even a coup or a threat from inside the military. One problem, there was no violence, no insurrection, no coup, no threat. Not even a hint of it. The threat was manufactured to bolster the Democrat moral high ground on the assault on the Capitol. It was only public relations, nothing else.

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FNC: ‘There were ‘no confrontations’ between National Guard members and any protesters during President Biden’s inauguration ceremony outside the U.S. Capitol, National Guard spokeswoman Darla Torres told Fox News in a statement Thursday. It’s not clear how many protesters showed up in the nation’s capitol, though a heavily militarized presence in downtown Washington, D.C., likely deterred any large gatherings from coming together.”

“We are here at the request of federal agencies and will stay as long as we are needed to meet their requirements. If we have excess capability and capacity, we want to get those soldiers and airmen back home to their families and employers as soon as we can,” Torres added.

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“Our ability to move 26,000 Soldiers and Airmen to DC from every state and territory in less than two weeks would not have been possible without the support of our governors and their adjutants general,” said Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard. “It speaks volumes about America’s investment in the National Guard; and most importantly, the support our service members get from their family and their employers.”

In related news, Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, wants to crack down on public disorder. “Just a few months ago, I remember the media and Democrats blaming all this Antifa violence on Donald Trump yet here we have Joe Biden in the White House and Antifa is still rampaging in the streets of Seattle, Portland and Denver. This proves a point I made months ago, this proves a point I made two weeks ago, that when you have a mob using violence for a political end, it doesn’t matter what slogan they’re chanting or what flag they’re waving, they have to be met with force.

“That has to be a standard that we apply no matter what slogan a mob is chanting. They’re not rampaging in the streets because Joe Biden is president, they weren’t doing it last summer when Donald Trump was president. They’re doing it because they hate America.”