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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...
There is no credible evidence that former President Donald Trump signed an order or directly sent National Guard troops to defend the U.S. Capitol as it was being attacked on January 6, 2021; multiple...
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...
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...
Internal communications and contemporaneous timelines show that Capitol Police and D.C. authorities asked for National Guard support multiple times before and during January 6, that those requests enc...
Internal Department of Defense documents and testimony show repeated debate among Pentagon and Army officials about whether deploying the D.C. National Guard would be perceived as a political or “opti...
Control of the D.C. National Guard is legally different from state guards: the president delegates command to the secretary of defense and (by further delegation) to the Army secretary, not to a local...
Available reporting shows violent crime in Washington, D.C. fell sharply in the weeks after the federal “surge” of National Guard troops and federal agents — for example, The Trace and PBS note a 62% ...