The President has directed the National Guard to the Capitol Building after it was besieged by supporters of his, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Wednesday.
In other words, trump got caught trying to stop the mobilization, only to realize that his blocking did nothing because Northam was quite happy to send over VA NG, and it only made it more obvious that trump was trying to support the insurrection, so he backed down and pretended he supported it all along.
They’re waiting for AntiFa to show up as it’s been well established that they are the real problem, especially when they start in with intimidating Proud Boys and stuff.
I have a lot of questions about the Capitol police’s role in all of this, and that of the Dept. of Homeland Security. Capitol police seem to have initially been almost completely missing in action. trumpers were wandering around inside the Senate and House unimpeded, still are, as far as I know, ransacking desks and doing god only knows what else. How on earth did that happen? It’s not like there hasn’t been plenty of warning that violence would erupt in DC today. And where was Homeland Security? Shouldn’t they have been coordinating protection across DC?