How can she take responsibility for not calling out the NG when she has NO power to do so?
As fact-checkers were quick to point out, neither Pelosi, nor any member of Congress has the unilateral authority to activate the D.C. National Guard — only the president, defense secretary, and U.S. Army secretary can.
Despite what he claimed, Trump made no such authorization ahead of or on the day of the riot. In fact, Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, the D.C. National Guard commander, testified before the Jan. 6 Committee that in the days before the riot, Pentagon officials had severely curtailed his ability to speedily deploy troops to locations around D.C., and that the approval for National Guard support on Jan. 6 was delayed by the Pentagon for several hours.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politic...235048545/
The former president’s statements are, unsurprisingly, misleading. Earlier this month, House Republicans released video purporting to show Pelosi taking on the blame for the riot unfolding in the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“We have responsibility, Terri,’” Pelosi says in the video, while speaking to her chief of staff Terri McCullough. “We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. This is ridiculous. You’re going to ask me in the middle of the thing — when they’ve already breached the inaugural stuff — ‘Should we call the [National Guard]?’ Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?”
What the video released by House Republicans didn’t show was that Pelosi’s recorded statements were part of a longer conversation in which she grilled her staff about why Capitol Police were so unprepared the day of the attack.
According to Politico, which reviewed 45 minutes of footage provided to the House by Pelosi’s daughter, the former speaker expressed frustration with law enforcement’s response.
As fact-checkers were quick to point out, neither Pelosi, nor any member of Congress has the unilateral authority to activate the D.C. National Guard — only the president, defense secretary, and U.S. Army secretary can.
Despite what he claimed, Trump made no such authorization ahead of or on the day of the riot. In fact, Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, the D.C. National Guard commander, testified before the Jan. 6 Committee that in the days before the riot, Pentagon officials had severely curtailed his ability to speedily deploy troops to locations around D.C., and that the approval for National Guard support on Jan. 6 was delayed by the Pentagon for several hours.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politic...235048545/
The former president’s statements are, unsurprisingly, misleading. Earlier this month, House Republicans released video purporting to show Pelosi taking on the blame for the riot unfolding in the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“We have responsibility, Terri,’” Pelosi says in the video, while speaking to her chief of staff Terri McCullough. “We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. This is ridiculous. You’re going to ask me in the middle of the thing — when they’ve already breached the inaugural stuff — ‘Should we call the [National Guard]?’ Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?”
What the video released by House Republicans didn’t show was that Pelosi’s recorded statements were part of a longer conversation in which she grilled her staff about why Capitol Police were so unprepared the day of the attack.
According to Politico, which reviewed 45 minutes of footage provided to the House by Pelosi’s daughter, the former speaker expressed frustration with law enforcement’s response.
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