Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said Thursday that after receiving a request for help from the District of Columbia on Wednesday, he immediately mobilized the state police and National Guard, but was repeatedly denied authorization to deploy.
Here's video of @GovLarryHogan saying Maryland's National Guard was repeatedly denied authorization to deploy to defend Congress on Wednesday during the 90 minutes after a panicked phone call from senior House and Senate leaders who were hiding from the president's mob https://t.co/EQOHyl1c0P pic.twitter.com/Fsf31LwUwP — Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) January 8, 2021
Hogan explained that while on a video conference call with Japan's ambassador, his chief of staff interrupted to tell him "the U.S. Capitol was under attack." He organized an emergency meeting to mobilize the police and Maryland National Guard, he said, and during the meeting, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the No. 2 House Democrat, called from "an undisclosed bunker" to tell Hogan that Capitol Police were "overwhelmed" by the pro-Trump mob storming the Capitol.
Hoyer was "pleading with us" to send the National Guard, Hogan said, and he had to tell him authorization had not yet come through. About 90 minutes later, Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy called Hogan to ask, "Can you come as soon as possible?" The governor responded, "Yeah, we've been waiting. We're ready."
"I can't tell you what was going on on the other end, on the decision-making process," Hogan said. "There's been lots of speculation in the media about that, but I'm not privy to what was going on inside the White House or inside the Pentagon." There are 500 Maryland National Guard members on standby outside of D.C., Hogan said, and he wants to "assure all Americans that the state of Maryland will do anything and everything we possibly can to continue to secure the core of our nation's capital and to ensure the peaceful transition of power." Catherine Garcia
ladystaggers on January 8th, 2021 at 12:31 UTC »
Barr quitting just days before this happened makes me think he knew exactly what was up and didn't say a word to stop it. Just bailed before it to save his own ass. But it might not be enough.
stephenk291 on January 8th, 2021 at 12:15 UTC »
Hogan should also be calling out MD's own Andy Harris for supporting Trump and the stupidity that went on that day.
fluffybottom on January 8th, 2021 at 12:07 UTC »
Trump replaced Pentagon officials a week or two ago with loyalists for a reason. It’s also clear that there are high-ranking officers who side with trump because of the overt failure to act in past crises, and overseas decisions that put soldiers in harms way, as well as ceding strategic positions to Turkey and Russia in Syria.
There are traitors in the pentagon.