Today is March 20.
The press release you are about to read was issued March 8, over a week and a half ago.
It almost certainly blows the three year old, every-day-repeated claim that Donald Trump attempted an insurrection against the United States to smithereens.
It shows there was testimony that Trump specifically requested 10,000 National Guard troops in Washington DC that day to protect the capital, and was turned down by Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser…
…and that, for three years, this testimony was intentionally withheld by the all-Trump-hating “January 6 Committee” – comprised of 7 Democrats and the two most anti-Trump Republicans in the house, liz cheney and Adam Kinzinger….
…with cheney then claiming – lying to our faces – that there was no evidence Trump ever made such a request.
Here, read it for yourself; every word:
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WASHINGTON – Today, Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (GA-11) released a transcribed interview the January 6 Select Committee conducted with President Trump’s former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato, which shows President Donald Trump pushed for 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the nation’s capital.
The interview also shows White House frustration with slow deployment of assistance. The Select Committee conducted this interview in January of 2022, but never released it.
Following Mollie Hemingway’s reporting, Chairman Loudermilk released the following statement:
“The former J6 Select Committee apparently withheld Mr. Ornato’s critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their pre-determined narrative,” said Chairman Loudermilk. “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.
“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. And, this is exactly why my investigation is committed to uncovering all the facts, no matter the outcome.”
Click here to read Ornato’s full transcribed interview. |
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Original reporting by Mollie Hemmingway in The Federalist reveals the January 6 Select Committee suppressed exonerating testimony of President Trump’s push for the National Guard on January 6, 2021. The Select Committee falsely claimed they had “no evidence” to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had asked for 10,000 National Guard troops. Ornato’s interview proves this was false.
Read the full article here.
Top Takeaways:
- A January 6 committee staffer asked Ornato, “When it comes to the National Guard statement about having 10,000 troops or any other number of troops, do you recall any discussion prior to the 6th about whether and how many National Guard troops to deploy on January 6th?” Ornato surprised the committee by noting he did recall a conversation between Meadows and Bowser: “He was on the phone with her and wanted to make sure she had everything that she needed,” Ornato told investigators.
- Meadows “wanted to know if she need any more guardsmen,” Ornato testified. “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. 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.” Ornato was correct. Bowser declined the offer, asking only for a few hundred National Guard and requiring them to serve in a very limited capacity.
- Bowser’s decision to decline help from the White House did not end the Trump team’s efforts to secure troops ahead of the protest. When the D.C. mayor declined Trump’s offer of 10,000 troops, Ornato said the White House requested a “quick reaction force” out of the Defense Department in case it was needed.
- Once the Capitol was breached, the Trump White House pushed for immediate help from Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller and grew frustrated at the slow deployment of that help, according to the testimony. “So then I remember the chief saying, ‘Hey, I’m calling secretary of defense to get that [quick reaction force] in here,” Ornato said. Later he said, “And then I remember the chief telling Miller, ‘Get them in here, get them in here to secure the Capitol now.’”
- Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had “no evidence” to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops. In fact, an early transcribed interview conducted by the committee included precisely that evidence from a key source. The interview, which Cheney attended and personally participated in, was suppressed from public release until now.
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The above release offers links to both the Anthony Ornato testimony and the Molly Hemingway article. I urge you in strongest terms to click on both of those links and read every word.
Do you believe Mr. Ornato’s sworn testimony? Ms. Hemingway’s account?
Maybe you do and maybe you don’t. But whatever you think of them, the fact remains that the Ornato testimony absolutely, unequivocally stands as evidence that Trump asked for the National Guard and was turned down.
Why do you suppose it was turned down? Could it be because Bowser, Pelosi and that crowd WANTED an incident they could use against Trump and Republicans? WANTED an event they could claim was an insurrection? That’s for you to decide. (I certainly wouldn’t put it past them.)
But who are the worst culprits here? The January 6 committee – which withheld this information for years and only released it because it was forced to do so?
Or our mainstream media, which – now given this testimony, thus given proof that the “there was no evidence of Trump’s request” claim was a dead-on lie – spent maybe a day or two grudgingly mentioning it; not as a major story but somewhere in the pile. And then immediately buried it?
This blows the lid off a three year claim that there was no evidence Trump tried to protect, not take over, Washington DC. The fact that it was suppressed blows the lid off any credibility the January 6 BS kangaroo-court committee ever had.
But, handed this monumentally huge story on a silver platter, most of what passes for our mainstream media almost immediately buried it.
WHY? because it destroyed their three-year narrative? Because they decided – again, as they have so often in recent years – to act as advocates rather than journalists?
Why do you think people like cheney do this? Because they know, our media being in its so compromised state, will let them…therefore they know they can get away with it? Can you come up with a more logical explanation? I can’t.
They are a disgrace to their profession. They have no business calling themselves journalists. And, saddest of all, they are making fools of every person who relies on them for neutral coverage of the news.
