Posted on 10/20/2021 2:41:49 PM PDT by bitt
Trump "had asked for up to 10,000 National Guard troops to be available" to the speaker and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser," said the former president's chief of staff. "And, unfortunately, they did not take him up on that."
rk Meadows, former chief of staff to President Trump, said that during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) asked the Department of Defense what time Congress members could get their lunch.
Meadows told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Tuesday that while he wasn't in the room at the time of the call, Pelosi contacted Department of Defense officials later on during the riot and "made an inquiry about what time, you know, our members could actually get their lunch."
"I find it amazing that she was more interested in their culinary position than they are in anything else," he added.
Trump "had asked for up to 10,000 National Guard troops to be available to Nancy Pelosi and to [Washington, D.C.] Mayor [Muriel] Bowser," Meadows said. "And, unfortunately, they did not take him up on that. But he did put them on the ready, and that's why they were able to respond as quickly as they did."
Meadows explained that Trump had made the National Guard available two days before the Capitol riot because he knew a lot of people would attend the rally on Jan. 6 and remembered Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and others had been previously accosted leaving the Republican National Convention.
"And what he didn't want is this whole chaos to erupt with counterprotesters and the like," but that was "largely ... ignored" leading up to and on Jan. 6 "by those that should be making the decision," Meadows recounted, referring to Pelosi.
Asked to comment on Meadows' claims regarding Pelosi's query about lunch and refusal to take Trump up on his offer of 10,000 National Guard troops, the speaker's office replied: "This is false and makes no sense on its face. The breach of the Capitol was in the 2 pm hour. It is already established that US Capitol security officials requested National Guard for hours before the request was granted by the Trump Administration."
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She didn’t offer to pay for anyone’s lunch, I bet.
Heard she had three scoops with her pie.
Meadows told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Tuesday that while he wasn’t in the room at the time of the call, Pelosi contacted Department of Defense officials later on during the riot and “made an inquiry about what time, you know, our members could actually get their lunch.”
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Is this had been an actual insurrection, one does not usually worry about what time is lunch served.
Is this had been an actual insurrection, one does not usually worry about what time is lunch served.
Marie Antoinnete let them eat cake...lol
Pelosi contacted Department of Defense officials later on during the riot and “made an inquiry about what time, you know, our members could actually get their lunch.”
Such a horrible armed insurrection, wasn’t it?
Lunch?
Wasn’t the real start of this closer to dinner?
And the Trump rally after lunch anyway?
Literally worse than 9/11.
Of course Pelosi and Bowser didn’t want the National Guard, they would have just interfered with their planned Reich stag fire.
And by lunch, she meant Vodka.
Bingo.
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