McConnell Warned Of Attack On Biden’s Inauguration

Politico reports:

Two days after pro-Donald Trump rioters attacked the Capitol, then-national security adviser Robert O’Brien got a call from Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and an aide who asked him to look into something he’d been hearing: retired military personnel sympathetic to Donald Trump might be preparing to prevent Joe Biden’s inauguration.

“[H]e was concerned that there were reports that there were retired military personnel who were sympathetic to the president and might be organizing,” O’Brien said in the interview. McConnell’s own national security aide, Robert Karem, was on the call as well and raised similar concerns about Navy SEALs, O’Brien said.

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NEW: Two days after the Jan. 6 attack, Mitch McConnell and an aide spoke to Robert O’Brien and discussed an alarming concern: that ex-military and Navy SEALs could try to stop Biden’s inauguration.

O’Brien described this call to the Jan. 6 committee.https://t.co/NHMFhNBJb3

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