Revealed: Trump wanted 10,000 National Guard soldiers to protect him on walk to the Capitol on J6

At the end of November, House Select Committee chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson told reporters that they hadn't yet heard from a Secret Service agent that had corroborated the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, the aide to chief of staff Mark Meadows. "On Jan 2nd, rally organizer Katrina Pierson informed Wren that President Trump’s Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, had said the President was going to 'call on everyone to march to the apitol,'" the report cited. Advisers tried to talk him out of it, including White House Senior Advisor Max Miller, who "shot it down immediately," the report said, because there were concerns about Trump's safety. That is, President Trump briefly considered having the National Guard oversee his procession to the U.S. Only the president can order the National Guard in Washington, D.C. As former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper's deposition makes clear, there are only about 1,200 Guard soldiers in the Washington, D.C. guard, so it would require the president to call on multiple states to bring together such a number. At the end of the report, in Appendix 2 on page 742, there's a key comment that an email was sent by then chief of staff Meadows explicitly saying on Jan.5 that the Washington, D.C. National Guard would be on hand to “protect pro Trump people.” Read more of Raw Story's coverage of the Jan. 6 report here.