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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...
Available reporting indicates two West Virginia National Guard members were shot near the White House on November 26, 2025 and were described by multiple officials as in “critical condition” after bei...
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 official timelines and post‑event reporting show no credible evidence that former President Trump signed an order on Jan. 3, 2021, to deploy 10,000–20,000 National Guard troops for Jan. 6; t...
On January 4, 2021 Mayor Muriel Bowser submitted written requests for limited District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) assistance for January 5–6, specifying crowd management and traffic/control rol...
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 ...
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 D.C. mayor cannot unilaterally deploy the D.C. National Guard; authority over the D.C. Guard rests with federal officials (President, Secretary of Defense/Army) and deployment of out‑of‑state Guar...
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...
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...
Authorities and multiple news organizations have identified the suspect as 29‑year‑old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who entered the United States in 2021 under programs tied to the U.S. wi...
Chief Steven Sund made repeated, contemporaneous oral requests for National Guard assistance during a chaotic conference call at about 2:26 p.m. on Jan. 6, a plea that Pentagon timelines and later tes...
Washington, D.C.’s crime picture through 2024–mid‑2025 is contested: official and federal reports describe large recent declines in violent crime (violent crime down 35% in 2024 vs. 2023 per the U.S. ...
Mayor Muriel Bowser submitted a written request on Dec. 31, 2020 asking for District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) assistance for inauguration-related security; the Pentagon authorized limited, mo...
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...
The president and the federal executive branch have been the explicit driver of the 2025 National Guard deployments in Washington, D.C.: authorities say President Trump issued the August 2025 mobiliza...
Multiple official and local officials requested National Guard support around Jan. 6, 2021, but sources disagree about who asked when and how quickly approvals moved. Key points: Mayor Muriel Bowser r...
The District of Columbia National Guard has been operating in Washington, D.C., under orders that the Trump administration and the Pentagon say authorize a crime‑fighting mission; formal orders review...
Washington, D.C. saw a large drop in violence in 2024 — roughly a 31–32% fall in homicides (190 vs. 274) and a 35% decline in total violent crime, according to D.C. police and the U.S. Attorney’s Offi...