According to transcripts released by Rep. Loudermilk, Trump aide Anthony Ornato testified that Trump was ready to send 10,000 National Guard troops to Washington D.C. on January 6th to secure the area.
However, Liz Cheney and the January 6th Committee, of which she was a member, never released this evidence and claimed there was no evidence of Trump calling for the National Guard deployment.
“The former J6 Select Committee apparently withheld Mr. Ornato’s critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their pre-determined narrative,” Loudermilk said.
The House oversight committee discovered around 100 files were deleted or encrypted from the January 6th committee’s hard drives just before control shifted to Republicans.
“Mr. Ornato’s testimony proves what Mr. Meadows has said all along, President Trump did offer 10,000 National Guard troops to secure the US 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,” Loudermilk added. (Trending: New Bombshell FBI Docs Blow Trump Case Wide Open)
“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?” senior investigative counsel Soumya Dayananda asked Ornato.
Ornato noted that DC Mayor Muriel Bowser had only “350 or so for intersection control,” and they were not for “law enforcement capacity at the time.”
“That’s the only thing I recall with that number 10,000 National Guard guardsmen,” Ornato said. “And then I remember the chief telling [Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher] Miller, ‘Get them in here, get them in here to secure the Capitol now.’”
Rep. Elise Stefanik criticized the committee for illegally deleting records.
“As I said from day one, Nancy Pelosi’s sham January 6th Committee was illegitimate and unconstitutional. It should come as a surprise to no one that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney’s fake committee illegally deleted records of their sham investigation and obstructed justice,” Rep. Stefanik wrote on X. “The American people deserve full transparency.”
Cheney responded by linking to a previous statement by Stefanik about January 6th, implying she changed her stance.
The transcripts and data deletions call into question the narrative put forward by Cheney and the Democratic-led committee.
“This is what @EliseStefanik said, in a rare moment of honesty, about the January 6 attack on our Capitol,” Cheney wrote. “One day she will have to explain how and why she morphed into a total crackpot. History, and our children, deserve to know.”
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