There is no record of former President Donald Trump authorizing or requesting thousands of National Guard troops for the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Jan. 6, during a meeting on an unrelated topic, Trump asked him how many troops the Defense Department planned to have on Jan. 6. Miller said he told Trump the plan was to provide National Guard support as requested by the District of Columbia. In response, Trump reportedly said,"You’re going to need 10,000 people."Former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone
that he never heard Trump ask for the National Guard or a law enforcement response. When asked by the committee whether he would have known if troops were to be present or called up for a rally near the Capitol, Kellogg said:"Yeah, I would have." Members of Congress don’t have the authority to activate the D.C. National Guard, said Jane L. Campbell, president and CEO of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, a nonprofit and nonpartisan educational organization.
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