An anonymous WorldNetDaily writer stated in a March 23 article:
One of the biggest talking points that Nancy Pelosi’s partisan Jan. 6 committee, which essentially worked to blame President Donald Trump for the riot that day in 2021, used was that Trump refused to authorize National Guard troops to protect the Capitol.
Only he didn’t. Evidence now shows he told Democrat officials that he would authorize up to 10,000 to be on hand that day.
But that evidence apparently was suppressed by Pelosi’s committee, which in large part was led by anti-Trump GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who shortly later was booted from Congress by her own voters.
And now we know how much that committee apparently wanted that information hidden.
A report from the Post-Millennial reveals that the committee “threatened” an official when he confirmed Trump had called for the Guard to be present.
“Chris Miller said that when the J6 committee would ‘make his life hell’ if he kept going on TV to talk about the J6 case. He said it was clear Liz Cheney was running the show,” the report explained.
Miller is Trump’s former acting Defense Secretary and confirmed the threat about what would happen to him if he “kept on claiming that Trump authorized” the Guard.
“Miller spoke to the Daily Mail about the allegations and said when he would go on TV interviews to recount his experiences with Trump calling for the National Guard, the J6 panel would bring him in for hours at a time for additional testimony,” the report said.
Miller confirmed that an interview he did in 2022 with Sean Hannity and Trump-era National Security official Kash Patel “hit a nerve” with Pelosi’s hand-picked committee.
“The two of us were on [the Fox News show] and the next day my lawyer got a call from the Jan. 6 staff director – I forgot exactly who it was – but basically saying, very legalistic: ‘Well, if your client has additional information he wants to share, we’d be happy to have him re-interviewed,'” Miller confirmed.
“It was more that latent threat of: ‘If you want to keep going on TV, we’re gonna drag you in here again for additional hours of hearing testimony.’ So that was the nature of that whole thing,” he said.
The anonymous writer omitted one crucial fact: Miller had testified to the January 6 committee that Trump never issued an order to deploy National Guard troops. As a more honest and truthful media outlet reported:
Former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller told the House select committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection that former President Donald Trump never gave him a formal order to have 10,000 troops ready to be deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to new video of Miller’s deposition released by the committee.
“I was never given any direction or order or knew of any plans of that nature,” Miller said in the video.
Miller later said in the video definitively, “There was no direct, there was no order from the President.”
“We obviously had plans for activating more folks, but that was not anything more than contingency planning,” Miller added. “There was no official message traffic or anything of that nature.”
There’s even audio of Miller saying this.
Further, Miller actually shot down requests for a National Guard deployment before the riot, though Trump wanted the troops to protect him and his supporters, not secure the Capitol.
That’s why the committee wanted to talk further to Trump — he was telling Hannity a different story than he he previously told the committee under oath. Why wouldn’t the committee want to ask Miller why he changed his story? Miller either lied then — which arguably makes him a perjurer — or he’s lying now. But vague, unsubstantiated “threats” (and his new, right-wing-friendly narrative) play better in right-wing media than the truth about inconsistencies in testimony, so WND will keep silent about this.
Also, it’s laughable that our anonymous writer whined that the committee “essentially worked to blame President Donald Trump for the riot that day in 2021” even though Trump is, in fact, largely to blame for inciting the events of that day. WND offers no evidence to the contrary. And this story simply feeds into WND’s own false narrative about Guard troops and the riot.