Former Trump administration aide Kash Patel on Wednesday denied claims that President Trump chose not to call up the National Guard during the Jan. 6 attacks or delayed efforts to approve their deployments in testimony he provided in the former president’s 14th Amendment case in Colorado.
Patel, who was the chief of staff to acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller during the Jan. 6 attacks, argued that it was instead D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser who delayed calls for the National Guard in the days before the riot.
The mostly peaceful protest went sideways. Was no armed insurrection and there was no creditable threat March 4th. What has been lost was the fact that you had anywhere from 250-500,000 people in DC that day. And when you look at the few thousand that attacked the Capitol, it was mostly peaceful. Just ask the FBI and Vox.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) reacted to the U.S. House canceling its session on Thursday in response to the threats by stating the intelligence he’s seen is “a bit of an overabundance of caution, at least I’m hopeful,” and that “we’ve not seen any evidence of accumulation of crowds coming into the city, and this mostly seems to be internet chatter.
Jared Holt told Vox that he “did not find any of the usual tells we tend to see when online extremism is about to translate into real-world mobilization prior to March 4.” Holt is a resident fellow at DFRLab focused on domestic extremism; he correctly warned in the days leading up to the January 6 insurrection about internet chatter indicating pro-Trump demonstrations that day could spiral out of control.
“In recent days, even, many extremist influencers and communities actively discouraged participation in any would-be action on that date,” continued Holt in a Twitter direct message.
Hopefully all those who committed crimes that day will be charged and punished. Laws were broken that day. Unlike BLM and Antifa riots where criminals are not being punished, they are for January 6th.
