Trump did not alert National Guard in taking over Capitol, investigators say

Republican legislator Liz Cheney, vice chair of the January 6 committee, announced Thursday that the day of the storming the capitol The ex-president donald trump (2017-2021) “He did not give an order to deploy the National Guard”as announced by the White House.

During the first hearing of the committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Cheney showed a video of an interview with the Chief of Staff of the US Armed Forces, Mark Milley, in which the official It said it was then-Vice President Mike Pence who ordered National Guard troops to respond to the attack.

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Milley, who remains the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, also said that Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, told him that day that the vice president should not be seen as taking control and that the narrative had to be that Trump “I was still in charge.”

This is one of more than 1,000 interviews that the committee has done during these months to find out what happened on the day of the assault on the Capitol.

The hearing is being held in prime time and will be broadcast live on all US networks with the exception of the conservative Fox.

In the assault on the Capitol, five people died and about 140 agents were attacked.

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