{"id":1571312,"date":"2022-07-26T09:23:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1571312"},"modified":"2022-07-26T09:23:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:23:29","slug":"president-trump-authorized-national-guard-for-jan-6-but-congress-and-dc-did-not-order-its-use-former-aide-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-authorized-national-guard-for-jan-6-but-congress-and-dc-did-not-order-its-use-former-aide-says\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Authorized National Guard for Jan. 6, But Congress and DC Did Not Order Its Use, Former Aide Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpresident-trump-authorized-national-guard-for-jan-6-but-congress-and-dc-did-not-order-its-use-former-aide-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1571312&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Under the law, a president cannot order the National Guard for domestic deployment; local officials must request it<\/p>\n<p>A claim by the House Jan. 6 Select Committee\u00a0vice-chair that President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> did not order the use of National Guard troops in the District of Columbia on Jan. 6 is true because that would have been a violation of the law, former Department of Defense aide Kash Patel says.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told Bret Baier of Fox News that Trump \u201cnever issued any order to deploy the National Guard to protect the Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patel said that Trump authorized up to 20,000 National Guard troops for use in D.C. or elsewhere on Jan. 6, but that those troops were later rejected by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the U.S. Capitol Police.<\/p>\n<p>Under the law, the president cannot order the deployment of the military for use inside the United States, Patel said. At the time of the Jan. 6 unrest, Patel was chief of staff for Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knows the truth\u201445 authorized National Guard days before Jan. 6, and Pelosi and Bowser rejected it,\u201d Patel told The Epoch Times. \u201cCheney knows it\u2019s unconstitutional for any president to ever order the military to deploy domestically. He may only authorize their use, then there must be a request.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/Kash_Patel_Documentary.jpg\"><\/a> In the new documentary, \u201cThe Real Story of Jan. 6,\u201d Kash Patel, former chief of staff for the U.S. secretary of defense, said National Guard troops were rejected by Capitol Police and the D.C. mayor. (Screenshot\/EpochTV) <strong>Read More<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/the-real-story-of-jan-6-documentary_4596670.html\">The Real Story of January 6 | Documentary<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy her own quote, she has cleared Trump of the very thing she has accused him of from Day 1\u2014an insurrection,\u201d Patel said. \u201cSo yes, Trump never made that illegal order. He followed the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Authorized 20,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A claim by the House Jan. 6 Select Committee\u00a0vice-chair that President Donald Trump did not order the use of National Guard troops in the District of Columbia on Jan. 6 is true because that would have been a violation of the law, former Department of Defense aide Kash Patel says. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":347,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}