According to a report by The Federalist, former RINO Liz Cheney (R-WY) and the January 6 Committee intentionally hid vital evidence showing former President Donald Trump requested 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the US Capitol building before the rioting began.
On January 6, Cheney and the Democratic-led House Select Committee said that there was “no evidence” to back up Trump officials’ allegations that the White House had requested 10,000 National Guard troops ahead of the January 6, 2021, rallies in Washington, D.C. Of course there wasn’t because Cheney hid it. This is Soviet Union-era stuff.
However, a transcribed interview held by the committee in January 2022 appears to offer evidence that Donald Trump requested Democratic leadership to deploy thousands of National Guard troops to prevent massive bloodshed on Jan. 6, according to a new report from The Federalist.
On January 28, 2022, the committee examined the then-Deputy Chief of Staff, Anthony Ornato. According to the transcripts, he told Cheney and other investigators that he overheard White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urge Democratic D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to request as many National Guard troops as she needed to protect the city prior to the 2020 presidential election demonstrations.
Ornato stated that Meadows “wanted to know if she needed any more guardsmen.”
“And I remember the number 10,000 coming up of, you know, ‘The president wants to make sure that you have enough.’ You know, ‘He is willing to ask for 10,000.’ I remember that number,” Ornato told the Committee on Finance on January 6. “Now that you said it, it reminded me of it. And that she was all set. She had, I think it was like 350 or so for intersection control, and those types of things not in the law enforcement capacity at the time.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELMollie Ziegler Hemingway wrote for The Federalist, “Not only did the committee not accurately characterize the interview, they suppressed the transcript from public review. On top of that, committee allies began publishing critical stories and even conspiracy theories about Ornato ahead of follow-up interviews with him. Ornato was a career Secret Service official who had been detailed to the security position in the White House.”
Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), chairman of the House Administration Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight, said in a statement on Friday, “The former J6 Select Committee apparently withheld Mr. Ornato’s critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their pre-determined narrative.”
“Mr. Ornato’s testimony proves what Mr. Meadows has said all along, President Trump did in fact offer 10,000 National Guard troops to secure the U.S. Capitol, which was turned down,” Loudermilk wrote in a statement.
“This is just one example of important information the former Select Committee hid from the public because it contradicted what they wanted the American people to believe,” he said. “And, this is exactly why my investigation is committed to uncovering all the facts, no matter the outcome.”
Ornato also stated in his testimony that the Trump administration was dissatisfied with the Department of Defense’s answer to a request for a quick reaction force.
As the protests became chaotic, Meadows requested that Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller deploy the fast reaction team.
“So then I remember the chief saying, ‘Hey, I’m calling Secretary of Defense to get that QRF in here,'” Ornato explained to the committee. “And then I remember the chief telling Miller, ‘Get them in here, get them in here to secure the Capitol now.’ And that’s where I remember the National Guard being, you know, ordered by the chief.”
According to Ornato’s testimony, Meadows was continuously asking when the QRF would come to guard the Capitol.
“Every time [Meadows] would ask, ‘What’s taking so long?’ It would be, like, you know, ‘This isn’t just start the car and we’re there. We have to muster them up, we have to’—so it was constant excuses coming from—not excuses, but what they were actually doing to get them there,” Ornato said. “So, you know, ‘We only have so many here right now. They’re given an hour to get ready.’ So there’s, like, all these timelines that was being explained to the chief. And he relayed that, like, you know — he’s like, ‘I don’t care, just get them here,’ you know, and ‘Get them to the Capitol, not to the White House.'”
We reported when the January 6 Committee was accused of deleting password-protected files containing “critical information” only days before Republicans won control of the House of Representatives. I wonder what they needed to hide? Every member of that committee should suffer consequences for their actions. I won’t hold my breath.
The fact that they did this lends more credence to those who believe the whole January 6 House Select Committee was created to trash Trump as election interference.
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