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The deployment of the National Guard to the US Capitol on January 6 was delayed due to unusual approval requirements and high-level sign-off, resulting in a multi-hour gap between the initial request and the arrival of Guard forces.
A careful reading of contemporaneous records and multiple fact‑checks finds no evidence that then‑Speaker Nancy Pelosi “turned down” or blocked the National Guard on Jan. 6; authority to activate the ...
During the roughly three-hour delay between the first breaches of the U.S. Capitol and the full deployment of reinforcements, law enforcement on the ground — principally the U.S. Capitol Police and Me...
The claim that Nancy Pelosi "refused" the National Guard on January 6, 2021 is false: authoritative contemporaneous reporting and multiple fact-checks show Pelosi did not have unilateral authority to ...
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 Speaker of the House does not have unilateral legal authority to “call out” or directly deploy the National Guard; operational control over Guard forces depends on whether they are state-controlle...