UHND.com - Notre Dame Football, Basketball, & Recruiting

The fact that Trump requested troops is not even debatable.

Below are excerpts from the article written by Tom Joscelyn. Notice that Joscelyn tried to obscure the fact that Trump requested troops by saying he did not give an order, but even Joscelyn and that Committee—a Committee that is completely slanted against Trump—couldn’t get around the fact that Trump wanted troops even if he deferred to others who talked him out of it. If troops were there, January 6th would not have happened.

We found out later that Nancy Pelosi admitted she herself was responsible for the failure.

Here is what the article and the drafter of the report said:

“[Full disclosure: The author [Tom Joscelyn] served as a senior professional staff member on the January 6th Committee. In that capacity, he worked with former Rep. Liz Cheney, whom he has known for more than two decades and continues to advise. In addition, the author was a PRINCIPAL DRAFTER of the COMMITTEE’S FINAL REPORT.

In its final report, the committee summarized the testimony of witnesses who claimed that Trump had floated the idea of deploying 10,000 National Guardsmen — mainly to protect him and his supporters as they marched together to the U.S. Capitol. While Trump wanted to “walk with the people,” he did not end up doing so. And, as the committee explained in the executive summary to its final report, the investigation uncovered “no evidence” that “President Trump gave an order to have 10,000 troops ready for January 6th.”

Ornato testified…pp. 61-62…I think we talked last time about the National Guard and what I recall on that. And that was, the Chief of Staff [Meadows] had a phone call with the D.C. Mayor, and was talking to her about this.

… the January 6th Committee’s final report cited testimony that Trump suggested 10,000 National Guardsmen may be needed to protect him and his supporters – not the U.S. Capitol….

President Trump wanted to personally accompany his supporters on the march from the Ellipse to the U.S. Capitol. During a January 4th meeting with staffers and event organizer Katrina Pierson, President Trump emphasized his desire to march with his supporters. “Well, I should walk with the people,” Pierson recalled President Trump saying….

The President’s advisors tried to talk him out of it. White House Senior Advisor Max Miller “shot it down immediately” because of concerns about the President’s safety.]”