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The only people authorized to 'call out the national Guard' are the POTUS...that would have been Trump....or the Secretary of Defense.The reason J6 happened has ALWAYS boiled down to this:
IF the DC Mayor, Nancy Pelosi, and the Sergeants-At-Arns of the House and Senate had called on the National Guard to defend the Capitol after they had been briefed about the possibility of a large protest crowd coming on the near future J6 WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED.
If the FBI had focused on PREVENTING J6 from happening - instead or planning, prepping, infiltrating the Oath Keepers and crowds, and admittedly running 3 separate 'Entrapment Scheme' opetations involving NLT 28 undervover FBI & ATF agents within the Oath Keepers, and inside the Capitol (dressed as Trump supporters) BEFORE Capitol police starthed opening doors to let the crowd in - J6 WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED.
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You might want to actually know what your talking about, or writing about, before you open yer yap or touch a keyboard, just sayin'
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The Law Q&A | Who can call in the D.C. National Guard?
During Wednesday’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building while Congress held a joint session to certify the presidential election, news reports discussed the requests for National Guard forces to try
Under federal law, the president is the commander-in-chief of the D.C. Guard. The president authorizes the secretary of defense to supervise and control the D.C. Guard while in its militia status (i.e., not deployed overseas). The secretary may order the Guard mobilized to aid D.C. civil authorities, but subject only to the direction of the president.
Thus, while reports circulated about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser requesting the Guard to help restore order, only the president, or his secretary of defense, may order it to do so. The D.C. mayor has no authority and is not in the chain of command of the D.C. Guard. The D.C. metropolitan police did request Guard assistance for crowd control in preparation for the rally that preceded Wednesday’s riots.
Reports are that fewer than 400 of D.C.’s available 1,100 Army Guardsmen were approved for deployment at the start of the day by the acting secretary of defense (Trump fired Secretary Mark Esper on Nov. 9).