I'm pretty sure he's adding up a bunch of different sources/announcements as though they are different. Whether confused or intentionally bloviating?
As far as I can figure it is only about 10,000 and change right now. Will be 20,000 and change by Wednesday. Which is definitely on the high end but only about double recent typical numbers (I think somewhere between 8,000 and 9,000 troops in DC for Jan 2017 inauguration).
This is exactly what happens when you the poke the bear, the bear stands up all growly like. WTF did people expect?
35,000? Source(s)?
This.
I'm pretty sure he's adding up a bunch of different sources/announcements as though they are different. Whether confused or intentionally bloviating?
As far as I can figure it is only about 10,000 and change right now. Will be 20,000 and change by Wednesday. Which is definitely on the high end but only about double recent typical numbers (I think somewhere between 8,000 and 9,000 troops in DC for Jan 2017 inauguration).
This is exactly what happens when you the poke the bear, the bear stands up all growly like. WTF did people expect?