You’re wrong.
Either the DC mayor or Speaker Pelosi could have accepted PDJT’s days-earlier offer of using national guard troops. Both refused.
PDJT could not by himself have foisted troops onto the DC mall on January 6.
> Either the DC mayor or Speaker Pelosi could have accepted PDJT’s days-earlier offer of using national guard troops. Both refused. <
Yep. Either those two misread the situation or they wanted trouble. And they probably wanted trouble.
> PDJT could not by himself have foisted troops onto the DC mall on January 6. <
Why not? I ask that question in all seriousness. The president is the C-in-C of the DC Guard. If he wants to deploy the Guard, no one can stop him. I did a quick check about this topic in the past. I could find no law that restricted the president’s authority to deploy the DC Guard, or where in DC he could deploy it.
I certainly understand that if the Speaker makes it clear she doesn’t want the Guard in Capitol grounds, it would be very difficult politically for the president to do otherwise.
“PDJT could not by himself have foisted troops onto the DC mall on January 6.”
He could have had the 82nd Airborne sent in.
They were used in Washington D.C. in both 1968 and 1971.
By 8 April, 1968 there were 11,800 federal troops in D.C. helping the police and national guard put down the riots.
Washington D.C. after all is a federal district, the mayor and city council are mere figureheads who are allowed to take care of the mundane day to day operations. Congress has absolute authority over D.C.