[CottonBall]

“ President/Secretary of Defense/Secretary of the Army”

If this troop movement was wanted by the lefties, who could order it?

[Spirit of Liberty]

Muriel Bowser would have to ask the Defense Department.

Which she did. And acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller approved the request. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/04/politics/muriel-bowser-dc-national-guard-protests/index.html

(apologies for it being CNN; if someone wants a different source they can go digging 😉)

[SisterK]

If this troop movement was wanted by the lefties, who could order it?

the governors could have sent them in ignorance that the chain of command would be forfeited to the President

we don't know what is going on
which is how it should be
OPSEC