What should we infer from that? That the Capitol Police or Capitol security officials didn't want to keep the Trump mob out? Looks like we may get some interesting insights when this is fully investigated - as it will be.
My 11-year old niece (who reading and comprehension skills apparently are far superior to yours) says that OP states that "House and Senate security officials" turned down the request.
When she clicked on the hyperlink, she saw this: "
House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving said he was not comfortable with the "optics" of formally declaring an emergency before the demonstration, Sund said. Meanwhile,
Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger suggested that Sund informally seek his Guard contacts, asking them to "lean forward" and be on alert in case Capitol Police needed their help.
Irving could not be reached for comment. A cellphone number listed in his name has not accepted messages since Wednesday. Messages left at a residence he owns in Nevada were not immediately returned, and there was no answer Sunday evening at a D.C. apartment listed in his name. A neighbor said he had recently moved out.
Stenger declined Sunday to comment when a reporter visited his Virginia home. "I really don't want to talk about it," he said.
It was the first of six times Sund's request for help was rejected or delayed, he said. Two days later, on Wednesday afternoon, his forces in the midst of crisis, Sund said he pleaded for help five more times..."
.C. police had quickly dispatched hundreds of officers to the scene. But it was not enough. At 2:26 p.m., Sund said, he joined a conference call to the Pentagon to plead for additional backup.
"I am making an urgent, urgent immediate request for National Guard assistance," Sund recalled saying. "I have got to get boots on the ground."
On the call were several officials from the D.C. government, as well as officials from the Pentagon. The D.C. contingent was flabbergasted to hear a top Army official say he could not recommend that his boss, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, approve the request.
"I don't like the visual of the National Guard standing a police line with the Capitol in the background," the official said, according to Sund and others on the call."
