04-04-2023, 02:28 PM
(04-04-2023, 01:55 PM)pally Wrote: The PRESIDENT is in charge of the DC National Guard not the Speaker of the House. Trump chose not to bring in the National Guard at any time during that whole debacle. Mike Pence finally took charge.
Trump would have never consulted with Pelosi about anything. However, he is known to be a compulsive liar about everything he has ever done especially if it means blaming his failures on someone else
Correct that misstatement first came from Jim Jordan- The guy who the GOP put in charge of the House judiciary committee and he's not even a lawyer. He failed the Ohio bar exam and then never attempted it again.
Facts First: The Speaker of the House is not in charge of Capitol security. That’s the responsibility of the Capitol Police Board, which oversees the US Capitol Police and approves requests for National Guard assistance.
Jane L. Campbell, president, and CEO of the US Capitol Historical Society, “The Speaker of the House does not oversee the security of the US Capitol, nor does this official oversee the Capitol Police Board.”
Pelosi also cannot unduly influence who is appointed to the Board, which consists of the House and Senate Sergeants at Arms, the Architect of the Capitol, and the Chief of the Capitol Police. The Sergeants at Arms are elected and must be confirmed by their respective chambers and the Architect must be confirmed by both chambers of Congress.
And according to testimony from the former Capitol Police chief, Pelosi was not involved in the decisions made ahead of January 6 regarding the National Guard. In his testimony before the Senate in February, former US Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said that he approached both Sergeants at Arms on the House and Senate sides on January 4 to request the National Guard through an Emergency Declaration from the Capitol Police Board.
His request, according to Sund, was not approved. Instead, the Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael C. Stenger “suggested I ask (the National Guard) how quickly we could get support if needed and to ‘lean forward’ in case we had to request assistance on January 6,” according to Sund’s testimony.
Gen. Charles Flynn, the brother of President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn, was in the room for one of the key January 6 phone calls in which the DC government and US Capitol Police were asking for National Guard troops to quell the unfolding violence at the US Capitol on January 6th.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/michael-flynn-brother-capitol-riot-b1970877.html
