Miller later said in the video definitively, “There was no direct, there was no order from the President.” “We obviously had plans to activate more people, but that was nothing more than contingency planning,” Miller added. “There was no official message movement or anything like that.” Trump has previously said he has ordered National Guard troops to be ready by Jan. 6. On June 9 he released a statement that he “proposed and offered” as many as 20,000 National Guard troops to be deployed to Washington, DC, before January 6, claiming it was because he felt “that the crowd was going to be too large.” The committee released Miller’s testimony after it had already revealed that Trump did not make calls to military personnel or law enforcement to intervene as the attack on Capitol Hill unfolded. Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the committee that he never received a call from Trump as the attack was underway. Milley testified to the committee that he spoke with former Vice President Mike Pence “two or three” times on January 6. Keith Kellogg, Pence’s former national security adviser, also told the committee that Trump never demanded an answer from law enforcement.
