{"id":6092,"date":"2021-01-06T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=146947"},"modified":"2021-01-06T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T20:10:08","slug":"us-national-guard-ordered-to-clear-and-secure-us-capitol-building-under-siege-by-pro-trump-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/06\/us-national-guard-ordered-to-clear-and-secure-us-capitol-building-under-siege-by-pro-trump-mob\/","title":{"rendered":"US National Guard Ordered to Clear and Secure US Capitol Building Under Siege by Pro-Trump Mob"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a long period of silence, the White House on Wednesday afternoon directed the Pentagon to comply with a request made by Washington, D.C. officials to deploy the National Guard to the U.S. Capitol, which was breached earlier in the day in an apparent violent coup attempt<\/a> by hundreds of seditious supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Just before 3:30 pm, Jonathan Martin of the New York Times<\/em> tweeted<\/a> that the Virginia National Guard and 200 state troopers were being sent to D.C., according to a top Virginia official.<\/p>\n

Those troops will be joined by National Guard members and state police from Maryland, according to<\/a> a tweet shared by the state’s Republican Governor Larry Hogan at 3:47 pm.<\/p>\n

News of the deployment was confirmed by Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who said <\/a>that “the National Guard is on the way along with other federal protective services.” According to McEnany, the president issued the directive and reiterated his call for rioters “to remain peaceful.”<\/p>\n

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine demanded more from the president.<\/p>\n

“We call on President Trump to immediately tell his supporters, who are trampling on the District of Columbia and have breached the U.S. Capitol, to cease and desist and return from whence they came in a peaceful manner,” Racine said in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

“We urge President Trump to do what he has not yet done, but what he must do: order his supporters to leave the District of Columbia and fully embrace the transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris,” Racine added.<\/p>\n

Trump did not immediately condemn the violent actions of his mob, nor were troops immediately deployed after being requested.<\/p>\n

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