McConnell team raised worries about attack on Biden inauguration, ex-NSA O’Brien told Jan. 6 committee

Dec 24 2022 by POLITICO - TOP Stories

 

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 raised an alarming concern: 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...

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