Trump stated that his team informed the Department of Defense days before the assembly that masses might be greater than anticipated and 10,000 national guardsmen must be ready to deploy. He explained that -- from what he understands -- the warning was passed onward to leaders at the Capitol, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- and he understood that the request was denied because these leaders did not like the optics of 10,000 troops at the Capitol.
"So, you know, that was a big mistake," he explained.
Pelosi’s office and the Defense Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump further announced that he "hated" to see what took place on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
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Much of what drove the disorder at the Capitol remains a mystery.
Last week, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told a bipartisan Senate panel that he didn’t know then that his officers had got a report from the FBI’s field office in Norfolk, Virginia, that forecast, in detail, the odds that radicals could bring "war" to Washington the next day.
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The head of the FBI’s office in Washington has announced that once he got the Jan. 5 warning, the information was immediately shared with other law enforcement agencies through a joint terrorism task force.
Sund and House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving further could not agree on when National Guard assistance was demanded.
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Sund explained that he submitted the request at 1:09 p.m. on Jan. 6. But Irving maintained he did not get the request for National Guard support until after 2 p.m. while in former Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger’s office. When pressed, Irving explained that he took a call from Sund before while on the Congress floor.
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Sund and Irving differed on when the National Guard was summoned and on calls for the guard beforehand. Sund stated he spoke to both Stenger and Irving about requesting the National Guard in the days ahead of the disorder, and that Irving said he was concerned about the "optics" of having them present. Irving denied that, saying Sund’s account was "categorically false."
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Republicans have indicated that evidence could confirm that Democrat leaders were aware of the threat and did almost nothing to prevent the Jan. 6 attack.
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Pelosi said the commission will "investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex … and relating to the interference with the peaceful transfer of power."
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