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The records show multiple, overlapping authorities and requests behind the National Guard presence around the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack: of Guard forces after a request from D.C. officials, while...
The deployment of the National Guard to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, involved a measurable delay driven by , with multiple post-event timelines describing a several-hour gap between initial re...
On January 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol Police and the Mayor of Washington, D.C., formally requested , including immediate National Guard assistance and additional federal law-enforcement support, but ap...
No publicly released recorded phone call or message has been shown to prove that former President Donald Trump directly asked for National Guard troops to be deployed to the U.S. Capitol during the Ja...
President Trump participated in discussions about activating the National Guard for January 6, 2021, and multiple contemporaneous documents and later-released transcripts record offers or concurrence ...
State and federal accounts converge on this: ; the Guard ultimately mobilized after the Capitol breaches and Secretary of Defense Chris Miller approved forces . Official Department of Defense reportin...