Representative Barry Loudermilk  chairs the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight, and released a report this week showing that the Department of Defense Inspector General was part of a coverup of the Department of Defense’s intentional choice to delay the deployment of the D.C. National Guard to the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The DOD IG concealed the extent and cause of the delay in order to protect Department of Defense and Pentagon leadership, the report found, and did not candidly evaluate the actions of senior officials including Secretary of the Army, Ryan McCarthy, who failed to relay deployment orders to Major General William Walker, the Commander of the DC National Guard on January 6.

“My Subcommittee worked with the DOD IG in good faith throughout our investigation to provide multiple opportunities for the DOD IG to produce corroborating materials or evidence to support their conclusions,” said Chairman Loudermilk. “Unfortunately, the DOD IG continues to promote an inaccurate narrative that protects senior Pentagon officials and attempts to cast fault on the D.C. National Guard, who were ready and waiting less than 2 miles from the Capitol but unable to respond on January 6 due to lack of communication from the Secretary of the Army. My Subcommittee released transcripts that show that not only were political concerns of ‘optics’ at play, but that DOD officials continued to delay as the riot at the Capitol worsened. The evidence is conclusive: DOD officials misled Congress into believing that help was ‘on the way’ with full knowledge that it wasn’t.”

“After a thorough examination of emails and documents, including letters, memorandums, agreements, plans, orders, reports, briefings, statements made in congressional hearings, closed-door testimony to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (‘Select Committee’), and closed-door testimony made to the DoD IG,” Loudermilk continued, “the Subcommittee’s investigation has concluded that the Department of Defense intentionally delayed the deployment of the DC [National Guard] to the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Furthermore, the Subcommittee also maintains that the DOD IG knowingly concealed the extent of the delay in constructing a narrative that is favorable to DOD and Pentagon leadership.”

Oh, nice. That means that the riot was allowed to explode into a far more violent event than it could have been, thus allowing Democrats to begin a four-year campaign to brand it an “insurrection,” holding a political show trial by the House to keep the debacle before the public as long as possible, using the framing to demonize President Trump, and to give an excuse to partisan prosecutors to wage “lawfare” against the individual whom Democrats most feared as a danger to their agenda.

The shooting of rioter Ashli Babbitt was also quickly buried by partisan bureaucrats who didn’t want any adverse conduct by the Capitol Police to lessen public fury over the narrative that President Trump incited an “armed insurrection.”

So far, you should not be surprised to discover, the New York Times and most of the Axis media have not found Loudermilk’s committee’s conclusions worthy of reporting. Writes David Strom, “Pravda Media will no doubt downplay this report as a partisan witch hunt, but the new Attorney General, whoever that will be, should pursue perjury charges for everybody who lied, and Courts Martial should be held for people who disobeyed orders or lied to Congress or the Executive.”

Bingo. Though this will be called Trump’s retribution, it is necessary accountability.

The revelation of the cover-up is just one more of many, many examples of how officials actively worked to sabotage Trump and his Presidency throughout his four years in office, to the benefit of his political foes and to the detriment of the nation.

The lesson Trump has learned the hard way is that he cannot trust the alleged “professionals” in government service, including high-ranking officials. One can criticize his appointments and nominations since the election, but Trump’s determination to take as few chances as possible that he will have active saboteurs undermining his leadership is not only understandable but laudable and unavoidable.  He was stabbed in the back during his first term more times than Julius Caesar. I’m sure he will be again, but this time it will not be because he was under the naïve impression that the Washington D.C. culture is to support the President whatever party or point of view he represents—that is, an ethical and patriotic culture. It isn’t. It’s a snake pit.