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Available sources show no record that President Trump formally ordered 10,000–20,000 National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol before or on January 6, 2021; multiple fact‑checks and official timelines...
Available reporting shows President Donald Trump discussed and floated deploying National Guard forces around January 6, 2021, but there is no consensus in the record that he specifically ordered troo...
Project 2025 was developed and directed by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, which assembled a large team of former Trump administration officials and conservative policy experts to...
Authority to call up the National Guard on January 6, 2021, was legally and practically split among multiple actors: the District of Columbia Mayor could request DC National Guard assistance, the Capi...
Multiple officials played roles in the decision to send National Guard personnel to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021: . Claims that former President Trump personally ordered a 20,000-troop deployme...
Available reporting in the provided sources does not detail any specific medical or educational exemptions that Donald Trump personally claimed to avoid military service; contemporary articles focus o...
The National Guard was not sent to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, by a single, instantaneous order from the President; the deployment that did occur was ultimately approved through the Department of ...
Donald Trump did not formally declare an absolute, immediate end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; instead his administration ordered and announced phased troop reductions—cutting U.S. forces in bo...
The short answer: the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) did not submit a formal written request to the Department of Defense for National Guard troops to be positioned on the Capitol grounds in the days befo...
President Trump ordered cuts that reduced U.S. troop levels to about 2,500 in both Afghanistan and Iraq by mid‑January 2021; those cuts moved forces below prior planned levels (Afghanistan from ~4,500...
The House Select Committee concluded that President Trump never gave an order to deploy the National Guard to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, that the authority to order D.C. Guard forces rested with ...
Multiple officials at different agencies both approved and denied requests for National Guard and other assistance around January 6, 2021: the D.C. National Guard activation was approved by Acting Def...
Before the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack the D.C. National Guard occupied an unusual chain of command: the commanding general formally reports to the President, but operational control had been delegate...
The record shows conflicting accounts: some officials and witnesses say requests for National Guard assistance on January 6 were denied or delayed for reasons including , while Pentagon internal findi...
Department of Defense policies and approval procedures — notably pre‑Jan. 6 memos and a centralized chain of command for the unique D.C. National Guard — shaped both what forces were authorized and ho...
The record is mixed: contemporaneous Pentagon timelines and fact-checking found no evidence that President Trump signed a formal order deploying 10,000–20,000 National Guard troops to the Capitol on J...
The contemporary record does not show that President Donald Trump signed an order or otherwise formally requested a National Guard deployment to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021; multiple independe...
The short answer: no credible evidence shows Nancy Pelosi told then‑President Donald Trump not to send the National Guard on January 6, 2021; multiple fact‑checks and contemporaneous reporting show sh...
The immediate authority to request National Guard assistance at the U.S. Capitol rested with the Capitol Police Board and the Capitol Police chief, but the D.C. National Guard could not deploy to the ...
The chain of command — a complex overlay of the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP), the Capitol Police Board, and Department of Defense (DoD) actors — created both legal and practical impediments that slowed ...