Trump offered DC 'thousands of National Guard' troops 2 days before Capitol riot—and was denied
(thepostmillennial.com)
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Same reasons that he sent those Navy hospital ships to NY and Cali. He gave then every opportunity to do the right thing.
He offered the Guardsmen because he KNEW they would be refused.
That article is terrible. It doesn't even text out the most important quote.
I spent time transcribing.
I was chief of staff of the Department of Defense on the 6th. We had offered the Capitol Police and Mayor Bower of Washington DC, thousands of Nationals Guardsmen and Women, two days before January 6th and they turned us down. So it could have been prevented.
I swear I saw someone say on record they didn't want military equipment there because it would inflam protesters