“FACT: I made 11 urgent requests for National Guard assistance on January 6, starting at 12:58 PM. The House Sergeant at Arms, who reports directly to Speaker Pelosi, delayed approval for 71 minutes. She bears direct responsibility for that delay and is now rewriting history to blame @realDonaldTrump. The record is crystal clear.”
His comments come amid renewed scrutiny of leadership failures during the Capitol breach, as well as the political weaponization of those events by Democratic leaders.
While Pelosi framed the January 6 National Guard response as a Trump refusal, official records tell a more complex story. The Department of Defense previously confirmed that 340 National Guardsmen were authorized to assist with traffic and crowd control in D.C. on January 6, following a request days earlier.
Adding to the confusion was D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s firm resistance to a robust federal presence in the city leading up to the riot. In a January 5 letter—shared again on social media this week—Bowser wrote: “The District of Columbia is not requesting other federal law enforcement personnel… and discourages any additional deployment without immediate notification and coordination with MPD.”
That posture, rooted in criticism of Trump’s use of federal force during the George Floyd protests months earlier, may have contributed to the slower National Guard response when the Capitol came under attack.
However, the Pentagon has since revealed that Bowser reversed her position mid-crisis. “Mayor Bowser requested additional National Guard support once local and Capitol law enforcement were overwhelmed,” the Defense Department noted, adding that Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller responded by activating 1,100 Guardsmen.
The situation in Los Angeles has now reignited the debate over federal authority, public safety, and political double standards. Trump’s swift use of military support in California has drawn criticism from Democrats who once pleaded for more security—but now claim it’s overreach. Meanwhile, figures like Sund are pushing back, determined to correct what they see as a politically motivated revision of history.