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White House spokeswoman Kylie McCannani wrote on Twitter Wednesday night that outgoing US President Donald Trump had ordered the National Guard to be dispatched to the Congress building after hundreds of his supporters stormed the building. the same day.
“The National Guard, along with other federal protection agencies, is on its way (to the Capitol) by order of President Donald Trump,” McNani said.
The United States Department of Defense (Pentagon) had previously rejected a request by Washington DC officials to deploy the National Guard on Capitol Hill, according to the Washington Post, citing an unidentified source.
The newspaper had previously reported that the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, had asked the National Guard to “clean and secure” the Capitol building.
The US network “CNN” reported that hundreds of supporters of the outgoing President of the United States, Donald Trump, broke into the Congress (Capitol) building.
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