MADRID, 27 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The former Acting Secretary of Defense of the Trump Administration, Chris Miller, assured this Tuesday before the commission investigating the assault on Capitol Hill that the former president never gave him a formal order to deploy a force of 10,000 soldiers around the US Congress in the day that Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election was certified.
“I was never given any direction or order nor did I know of any plan of that nature (…) There was no order from the president,” Miller said during his speech via videoconference in the commission, according to CNN.
The former Secretary of Defense has explained that “obviously” his department had plans to activate more people in the Capitol surveillance device, and that the deployment of January 6, 2021 “was nothing more than contingency planning.”
The committee has released Miller’s testimony after revealing that Trump did not call in military personnel or security forces to intervene as the assault on Capitol Hill unfolded. In this sense, General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, detailed before the committee that he had never received a call from Trump while the attack was taking place.
The former president defended himself on June 9, issuing a statement in which he assured that he had asked for up to 20,000 National Guard troops to be deployed in Washington, D.C., stating that he felt “that the crowd was going to be very large,” according to the aforementioned chain. .
