From the Washington Post:
The head of the D.C. National Guard, Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz, said Friday that he has been ordered removed from his command effective Jan. 20, 12:01 p.m., just as Donald Trump is sworn in as president.
Schwartz’s forced departure will come in the midst of the presidential inauguration that he has spent months helping plan alongside D.C. police, the U.S. Secret Service and other top District officials. He will turn over command to an interim as power transfers from one president to the next, and just before the inaugural parade marches down Pennsylvania Avenue.
“The timing is extremely unusual,” Schwartz said in an interview Friday morning, confirming a memo announcing his ouster that was obtained by The Washington Post. During the inauguration, Schwartz would command not only the members of the D.C. guard but also an additional 5,000 unarmed troops sent in from across the country to help. He also would oversee military air support protecting the nation’s capital during the inauguration.
Schwartz said that he has not been told why he was asked to step down.
When it looks like a dictator, acts like a dictator, and talks like a dictator, it’s a goddamn dictator folks! How long are people going to lie to themselves about what is going to happen next week? Trump is working for Putin. He has assembled a cabinet of right-wing extremists, white supremacists, bigots, and thugs. They are even now dismantling all the checks and balances on their power and are preparing to loot the country for their own enrichment.
Meanwhile, our current leaders, up to and including our president, plan nothing more than showing up at his coronation on the 20th, handing him the keys to our nuclear arsenal and then walking off to leave us to our fates.
I have a hard time seeing any scenario where Trump is sworn in and this ends well for the world.