Maj. Gen. Walker conveyed a request for assistance at around 1:50 p.m. on J*** 6 but the Guard was not deployed to the Capitol until about 5:10 p.m.
Senior military leaders plotted to disobey then-President Donald Trump’s orders on J*** 6, 2021, because they “unreasonably” thought he might try to use the D.C. National Guard to block certification of the 2020 p**********l e******n, according to whistleblower Col. Earl Matthews. “I think a very plausible argument can be made that through no fault of his own, President Trump’s command authority over both the D.C. National Guard and the U.S. Army itself had been surreptitiously curtailed by the senior leadership of the Army on J****** 6, 2021,” Col. Matthews, told The Daily Mail in a May 3 interview.
The remarks by Col. Matthews dovetail with the contents of a book written in mid-2021 titled “I Alone Can Fix It” that claims then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, and other military leaders informally planned for different ways to disobey potential orders issued by President Trump that they disagreed with. The DOD did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Col. Matthews’s claims.