![]() Trump’s advisers were pushing him to declare martial law and invalidate the election results, he told the inspector general investigation, and having troops at the Capitol might fuel suspicion that he was trying to aid a coup. He was conscious of news articles that Mr. Miller, the acting defense secretary, was more blunt, saying “there was absolutely no way” he was going to put U.S. ![]() What that would look like, how that would influence even some of the demonstrators or protesters.”Ĭhristopher C. McConville, the Army chief of staff, told a Defense Department inspector general investigation in November 2021 that “many people talked about the optics of having military at the Capitol. Trump essentially duping the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff into joining him in June 2020 on a march across Lafayette Park for a photo op amid widespread protests against police brutality was still fresh. The image of armed troops surrounding the Capitol, they believed, was incongruous with a ceremony cementing a peaceful transfer of power.įor some officials, the memory of Mr. 6 thought that proactively mobilizing the National Guard was a bad idea. They have also come to general agreement on one fact: Law enforcement and military officials planning for Jan. ![]() Numerous government investigations have established that law enforcement agencies gravely misjudged the threat that the Jan. 6 and said that the National Guard would be present to ‘protect pro-Trump people’ and that many more would be available on standby.” Meadows had “sent an email to an individual about the events on Jan. The House committee said in December that Mr. ![]() 6 Attendees: To many of those who attended the Trump rally but never breached the Capitol, that date wasn’t a dark day for the nation.
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