Why it matters: Trump previously said he requested up to 20,000 National Guard troops before Jan. 6 because he felt “the crowd would be too big.” Miller’s testimony contradicts this claim. What he says: “I was never given any direction or command nor was I aware of any such plans,” Miller says in the video.
“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 adds. “There was no official message movement or anything like that.”
The big picture: The panel on Jan. 6 previously revealed that both Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Mike Pence’s former national security adviser, Keith Kellogg, testified that Trump did not request a response from law enforcement. before the day of the rebellion.
