Trump could have helped response to Jan. 6 riot -- but didn't -- per new testimony [View all]
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Source: Politico
Donald Trump could have cleared up confusion and hastened the arrival of National Guard troops to quell the Capitol riot if he'd called Pentagon leaders on Jan. 6, 2021, according to recent closed-door congressional testimony by two former leaders of the D.C. guard.
Michael Brooks, the senior enlisted leader of the D.C. guard at the time of the riot, and Brigadier Gen. Aaron Dean, the adjutant general of the D.C. guard at the time, told House Administration Committee staffers that if Trump had reached out that day -- which, by all accounts, he did not -- he might have helped cut through the chaos amid a tangle of conflicting advice and miscommunication.
"Could the president have picked up the phone, called the secretary of defense, and said, you know, 'What's going on here?' Our law enforcement is getting overrun, make this happen!'" a committee staffer asked Brooks, according to the transcript of a previously unreported March 14 interview reviewed by POLITICO.
"I assume he could expedite an approval through the Secretary of Defense, through the Secretary of the Army," Brooks replied.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/17/trump-jan-6-capitol-riot-national-guard-00152757
Also, here is Captain Timothy Nick's testimony, as posted by Kyle Becker.
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