{"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":"
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