And I can get you the exact quotes from some of our records somewhere,” Gen. He was very animated, and he issued very explicit, very direct, unambiguous orders. “There were two or three calls with Vice President Pence. It was Vice President Mike Pence who was critical to trying to move forces to the Capitol, officials have said. Miller said, “I would have created the greatest constitutional crisis probably since the Civil War.” Trump’s advisers were pushing him to declare martial law and invalidate the election results, he told the inspector general investigation, and having troops at the Capitol might fuel suspicion that he was trying to aid a coup. He was conscious of news articles that Mr.
Miller, the acting defense secretary, was more blunt, saying “there was absolutely no way” he was going to put U.S. What that would look like, how that would influence even some of the demonstrators or protesters.”Ĭhristopher C. McConville, the Army chief of staff, told a Defense Department inspector general investigation in November 2021 that “many people talked about the optics of having military at the Capitol. Trump essentially duping the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff into joining him in June 2020 on a march across Lafayette Park for a photo op amid widespread protests against police brutality was still fresh. The image of armed troops surrounding the Capitol, they believed, was incongruous with a ceremony cementing a peaceful transfer of power.įor some officials, the memory of Mr. 6 thought that proactively mobilizing the National Guard was a bad idea. They have also come to general agreement on one fact: Law enforcement and military officials planning for Jan. Numerous government investigations have established that law enforcement agencies gravely misjudged the threat that the Jan. 6 and said that the National Guard would be present to ‘protect pro-Trump people’ and that many more would be available on standby.” Meadows had “sent an email to an individual about the events on Jan. The House committee said in December that Mr. 6 Attendees: To many of those who attended the Trump rally but never breached the Capitol, that date wasn’t a dark day for the nation. Lost Lives: A bipartisan Senate report found that at least seven people died in connection with the attack.A Day of Rage: Using thousands of videos and police radio communications, a Times investigation reconstructed in detail what happened - and why.Here is a close look at how the attack unfolded. 6, 2021, 64 days after Election Day 2020, a mob of supporters of President Donald J. 6, 2021, that he wanted a National Guard presence, but it appeared he wanted the troops as extra protection for his supporters, his aides have privately acknowledged. The president did tell advisers in the days before Jan. Trump has made the false claim that he had told his aides he wanted 10,000 National Guard troops and that Speaker Nancy Pelosi had rejected the request. Kellyanne Conway, a former White House adviser, also fielded a call from someone trying to help Mayor Muriel Bowser find anyone in the West Wing willing to treat the situation as an emergency. Pottinger had been alerted by a former colleague, Charles Kupperman, who in turn had been contacted by someone seeking to help the mayor’s office in Washington as they desperately searched for help from the White House. Pottinger had an urgent discussion with the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, about why National Guard troops had not been deployed to the Capitol. The hearing featured the testimony of Matthew Pottinger, the deputy White House national security adviser, who resigned in protest on the day of the attack.
National Guard troops arrived, a gap that remains the subject of dueling narratives and finger-pointing. It took more than four hours from the time the Capitol Police chief made the call for backup to when the D.C. The mobilization and deployment of National Guard troops from an armory just two miles away from the Capitol was hung up by confusion, communications breakdowns and concern over the wisdom of dispatching armed soldiers to quell the riot.
Trump’s refusal to push for troops to assist police officers who were overrun by an angry mob determined to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
The hearing did not fully answer the question, but it shed light on Mr. Trump’s lack of forceful response to the attack on the Capitol by his supporters, it again raised one of the enduring mysteries of that day: Why did it take so long to deploy the National Guard? 6 used its prime-time hearing on Thursday to document President Donald J. WASHINGTON - As the House committee investigating Jan.
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