ANALYSIS – There has been a lot of information coming out of the Jan. 6 Committee hearings. One major bit of misinformation has been the claim that former President Trump didn't order the National Guard to protect the Capitol as he has said.
Or that it is ‘false' that Democrat officials rejected his offer.
One is totally misleading; the other is just untrue.
Most recently, former acting Defense Secretary (SECDEF) under Trump, Chris Miller testified that former President Donald Trump never gave him a formal order to have 10,000 troops ready to be deployed to the Capitol on January 6.
However, ignored by the media is that Miller noted that Trump had already given him all the authority he needed to provide military forces if needed. Trump didn't need to do anything more.
And Trump never said he ordered it because he couldn't legally do that.
Instead, Trump has said that he requested National Guard troops be ready for January 6. On June 9 he stated that he “suggested & offered” up to 20,000 National Guard troops be deployed to Washington, DC, ahead of January 6 because he felt “that the crowd was going to be very large.”
And that has been confirmed by numerous sources, including Trump's former National Security Advisor, Keith Kellogg, who was in the room on January 3 when Trump requested it.
TRUMP OFFERED NATIONAL GUARD
So, Trump didn't ‘order' the Guard, instead, he clearly ‘offered' it and authorized it.
And that is all he can legally do.
The president can't order the Guard in to any state or the District of Columbia with the consent and approval of the fovernor of the state, or the mayor in the case of D.C.
There is also the added complication of the Capitol being under Congressional authority.
To be clear, days before the riot, Trump was primarily concerned with protecting his supporters, not the Capitol, showing that an attack on the building was not really foreseen by anyone, even as law enforcement fears of violence grew in the days prior to the event.
But Trump's view coincided with earlier analyses by the Capitol Police that suggested violence was unlikely and the Jan. 6 event was likely to be “similar to the previous Million MAGA March rallies in November and December,” police records show.
And Miller also testified that he was concerned in the days before Jan. 6 that sending National Guard troops to Washington would fan fears of a military coup or that Trump advisers were advocating martial law.
This is a fantasy that Democrats and the media had been fueling for months.
Still, Trump's Defense Department team did formally offer support via the National Guard to all the local authorities involved, and that support was rejected by the two Capitol Sergeant at Arms reporting to Democrat congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer just days prior to Jan. 6, as well as Democrat DC mayor Muriel Bowser.
TRUMP'S OFFER REJECTED BY DEMOCRATS
As the chief of staff to Trump's SECDEF, Kash Patel, noted, according to justthenews.com:
“The Capitol Police timeline shows what we have been saying for the last year — that DOD support via the National Guard was refused by the House and Senate sergeant at arms, who report to Pelosi,” Patel said. “Now we have it in their own writing, days before Jan. 6. And despite the FBI warning of potential for serious disturbance, no perimeter was established, no agents put on the street, and no fence put up.”
Patel also said in a detailed interview earlier this year:
We went to the Capitol Police and the Secret Service and law enforcement agencies and Mayor Bowser days before January 6, and asked them, ‘Do you want thousands of National Guardsmen and women for January 6?' They all said no. Why did we do that? The law requires them to request it before we can deploy them. And the DOD IG found we did not delay, we actually prepared in a preemptive fashion, which is what we do at DOD.
Even when the Capitol Police Chief finally decided to request Guard support the day before January 6, the Democrat mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser said NO.
In a preemptive letter to Miller and other Pentagon and Justice Department officials on Jan. 5, Bowser asked that troops not be deployed unless the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) approved,
Their justification was an incident in the summer 2020, when troops were deployed at Lafayette Park near the White House during violent BLM riots directly across from the White House.
As justthenews reported:
Bowser wrote in her Jan. 5, 2021 letter that the earlier episode “caused confusion” and could have become “a national security threat with no way for MPD and federal law enforcement to decipher armed groups.”
“To be clear, the District of Columbia is not requesting other federal law enforcement personnel and discourages any additional deployment without immediate notification to and consultation with MPD, if such plans are underway,” Bowser wrote, adding she believed her police department was “well trained and prepared to lead the way” to ensure Jan. 6 unfolded safely.
So, it is becoming very clear that Trump did offer the Guard, and equally clear that Democrats such as Pelosi and Schumer didn't see the need to accept the support via their Capitol Sergeant at Arms until it was too late.
And the Democrat mayor of D.C. specifically asked that Guard troops NOT be sent into the city as late as January 5. ALD
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This is all BS. Talking in circles about things that should have happened but didn’t. And who’s to blame for that. Truth is, Pelosi and gang (however deep that membership goes) didn’t want the Guard there because they wanted (planned) for things to happen the way they did. Hired rabble rousers (only a few bad actors) infiltrated the crowd that were actually ushered (encouraged) into the Capitol building by uniformed Capitol Police. For the most part, the crowd that entered the Capitol were ordinary law abiding citizens (like tourists) that just responded to an invitation by Capitol Police. We all saw it on CSPAN. But no one on the J6 committee wants to look at that. Why? Because those are the ones that orchestrated the whole thing, so they could create this witch hunt. Someone needs to put an end to this. It’s all dangerous politics.
Until the fat ass fraud testifies under oath, EVERYTHING he says, along with his sycophants, is a lie.
Which :fat ass’ are you referring to? Pelosi, nadler, schumer, cortez, or any of the others who were fearful for their lives, even if miles away? Let’s hear some of the testimony and evidence other than that which the j6 peepshow selectively leaks to the fake news machine.
You must be deaf, blind and dumb if you believe all that drivel, you’ve got to be joking: Law abiding tourists my ass. You need help brother.
And if you believe those facts are drivel, you must be thrilled with Biden in the WH. Of course you apparently believe there is no inflation, gas prices are rock bottom, there is no supply chain crisis. Biden is energetic, articulate, that he perfectly implemented his plan to shut down the virus, and not the economy. That with him as President, Putin was too scared to invade Ukraine, that Joe got all Americans and locals who worked for us put of Afghanistan…
But let’s cut to the chase – are you able to determine – on your own – if the sun comes up?
That’s been known form the beginning. Only the Demonrats and RINOs lie about it.
What about Ray Epps ?
Democrats are a party of individual conspirators whose sole purpose and intentions are to keep our Constitutional Republic mired in chaos and confusion a tactic of Marxism.
Pelosi & allies said NO thus the J6 charade we have now & they aided J6
Who is Ray Epps ?
Which is why Pelosi and Schumer will never be called as witnesses.
Funny how you’ll never hear any of this on the MSM. That’s because they can’t destroy the narrative they’ve been feeding the people suffering from TDS. And these same people will ignore these facts even when they are irrefutable.
I firmly believe that the January 6 riot was a SET UP, planned and executed by Pelosi, the D.C. mayor, Capital Police, Antifa, and BLM, even including the FBI, with the sole purpose of trying to defame Trump and Trump supporters. The event and the J 6 Committee, together with the arrest and denial of basic legal rights to hundreds of Trump supporters represent a disgusting and criminal abuse of power by Democrats. To be successful, they could not have National Guard there to control the protesters!
Our ‘friends’ the DemonCrats wanted to inflame and exacerbate the crowd, egging them on to unwise actions of protest, hoping to smear and accuse our President. This sounds more and more like the old Soviet Union. Swamp lizards, all.
The clincher for me was when I read a local newspaper article about January 6th. There were two local National Guard Reserve members who went to Washington on their own time as civilians to see President Trump speak. They saw him speak but had to get back home to Illinois for work related reasons. Said there wasn’t anything seditious about his speech and drove home. Was surprised latter about what happened but I think some people went overboard and it got out of hand. Too bad but I don’t think it was President Trump’s fault. People were ticked as it was said he lost to Biden. I think we would have been better off with a 2nd term by President Trump as opposed to dementia Joe. Kurt
Well, they tried to make Trump a liar again and failed. He did ask for National Guard and was denied. So, whose fault is that? Surely isn’t his. He did what he thought was right and he covered his behind.
This story is full of distortations and half truths, if not out right lies. When are the real Republicans going to stand up for our democracy . So many of our so-called Republicans are basically Trump cult followers who would not accept the truth if it hit them between the eyes. Remember AMERICANLIBERTY entered a disclaimer that the comments were those of the author,not them. Before anyone has a hemmorage, let me say that I am a very conservative Republican who is retired after a 30 year career as a Police officer and Police Chief (by the way I voted for Trump the First time). I got smart during his four years of berating people and lying, I did not vote for him the last time. I’m a Korean war vet and do not cosy up to communists dictators like the Don does. Being a RINO could apply to all the crazes in the Party who worship Trump. (CULT)
The part there really bothers me is that D.C. mayor, Bowser, had a voice in the use of the Guard. Why in SAM HILL does a mayor have ANY say-so regarding the protection of federal buildings? One day people will learn the founders wanted D.C. to be federal and not part of any state. We had that until the “Progressives” persuades people the residents should have a mayor which got us people such as Bowser and Marion “Crackpipe” Barry.
This article is too stupid for publication.