5 Secret Service briefing on planned demonstrations around D.C., as well as a note about a Jan. Justice Department call logs show a number of calls between top department officials and the White House on the afternoon and evening of the attack, and timelines from the Secret Service detail agency activities that day, including those undertaken by agents who were part of Vice President Mike Pence’s detail. Since the attack, American Oversight has obtained several important public records that shed more light on the events of Jan. Capitol Police - an agency with a budget larger than that of most major-city police forces - are part of the legislative branch, thus not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, and have been heavily criticized in the past for not releasing information to the public. Information about the events was shared largely through media reports and interviews, in which various officials pointed fingers. In the days following the attack, federal law enforcement did not brief the public. Trump’s daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump, reportedly pleaded with her father to act and was later called to testify before the select committee. Public reporting has revealed that, during the attack’s first three hours, Trump watched the violence play out on TV, ignoring calls from allies and others to call off the mob. saying that he had heard from Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy that the troops were on their way to the Capitol.) In court filings made in April 2022, the House select committee investigating the attack said that it was “clear” that Trump had “never telephoned his Secretary of Defense that day to order deployment of National Guard, and never contacted any federal law enforcement agency to order security assistance to the Capitol Police.” ( Documents we obtained in early 2022 show that acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen sent an email at 4:27 p.m. 6, but the Guard maintained it was not told until 5:08. National Guard was informed of the authorization at 4:35 p.m. A Pentagon inspector general report said that the D.C. The delay in National Guard deployment has been at the center of ongoing unresolved questions about what was happening behind the scenes, including regarding the timeline of the deployment authorization. National Guard - and the president had initially denied requests for the deployment of Guardsmen. As Americans watched the rioters storm through the building, news reports circulated that the Pentagon - which has authority over the D.C. Just 1,400 Capitol Police officers were on duty at the time, and National Guardsmen didn’t arrive until hours after the invasion began. The biggest instigator, of course, was the former president himself, who for months had fanned the flames of conspiracy and earlier that day urged the crowd to march to the Capitol and “fight.”īut beyond the important issue of who was complicit in inciting the seditious and violent attack, questions remain about how the mob was able to so easily breach Capitol security and why it took so long to secure the building. Their goal of stopping the election certification, based on unfounded conspiracy theories of widespread voter fraud, was encouraged by elected officials like Rep. Capitol … was stoked in plain sight,” ProPublica reported, with Trump supporters having for weeks discussed openly their plans for a violent overthrow. The attempted coup was not a spontaneous act. Five people were killed, including one Capitol Police officer who was beaten by rioters. While lawmakers and staff were shepherded to secure locations or barricaded behind doors, the rioters pushed past severely outnumbered Capitol Police officers, breaking windows and vandalizing offices, many with disturbingly violent intentions toward members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence for their having refused to succumb to Trump’s attempts to overturn the election in his favor. 6, 2021, as Congress was meeting to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, a violent and heavily armed mob of supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump stormed the U.S.
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