Former President Trump never ordered 10,000 troops deployed to protect the Capitol on Jan. 6, former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller testified in a video released by the select committee on Jan. 6 on Tuesday.
Why it matters: Trump previously said he requested up to 20,000 National Guard troops before Jan. 6 because he had a feeling “the crowd would be very large.” Miller’s testimony contradicts this claim.
What he says: “I never received any direction or order, nor was I aware of any plans of this nature,” Miller says in the video.
- “There was no direct, no order from the president.
- “Obviously we had plans to activate more people, but it was nothing more than contingency planning,” Miller adds. “There was no official message traffic or anything like that.”
The big picture: The Jan. 6 panel previously revealed that both Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Mike Pence’s former national security adviser Keith Kellogg testified that Trump had not requested a law enforcement response before the day of the rebellion. .
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