FBI Director Kash Patel Told Joe Rogan Just Last Week Governors Have to Agree For President to Send In National Guard
FBI Director Kash Patel explicitly told Joe Rogan last week that the president needs the consent of governors and mayors in order to deploy the National Guard into their states or cities.
Patel joined Rogan’s popular podcast last week and spoke about a wide range of topics, including January 6th and the long-held claim by Trump that he ordered the National Guard to be ready ahead of his speech that day.
“And on that day, he [Trump] goes, hey, you know, how’s it looking for January 6th? Do you guys have everything you need? And he goes, I’m going to authorize up to 10 to 20,000 National Guardsmen and women if you guys need them anywhere in the country,” claimed Patel, who was the acting Pentagon chief of staff at the time.
Notably, Trump’s former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller testified to the House Jan. 6th committee that there was no order to have military personnel ready ahead of Jan. 6.
“I was never given any direction or order or knew of any plans of that nature,” Miller told the committee.
Patel added, “The reason that’s important is because we can’t uniformly deploy military in the United States. That’s what the National Guard’s for. But in order to do that, the president has to, one, authorize it, and, two, the mayor or governor, so it’s DC, so it’s the mayor and the Capitol Police and the Speaker of the House are in charge, have to request the deployment of troops.”
Patel’s comments took on new meaning this week after President Donald Trump federalized and deployed the California National Guard without the governor’s consent. California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) is now suing Trump over the order and called it the actions of a “dictator.” Trump later deployed 700 active-duty Marines to LA.
Patel continued, “We went to them days before January 6th. We went to Bowser, we went to Pelosi. They said no in writing. We were excoriated for it. ‘Your guys are lying. You didn’t offer this up,’” Patel continued, adding:
If you had been there, this would have never happened. Well, actually, President Trump preemptively authorized 10 to 20,000 National Guard. And what happened?
I spent the next three years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, testifying before Congress, proving up just what I had said was the truth. Then the documents came. We finally got them out because I know what we had written.
And it showed Bowser in writing, declining National Guard. It showed Pelosi in writing, saying no to the Capitol Police. Don’t get the National Guard.
“So they wanted it to be chaos,” Rogan pressed.
“Well, I’ll leave it to you on that. But what I’m telling you is they knew what was true. They knew what was false. And I’m not asking you to give an opinion on the events of January 6th. But had 10,000 of my guys been there, do you think it would have gone differently?” Patel said.
“Yeah, 100 percent,” Rogan replied.
“They stopped it. And they spent years lying. And now we’re still lying about that authorization, even though we’ve put it to bed. Like Russiagate, like Hunter Biden’s laptop, 51 Intel letter. They keep doing it over and over again,” Patel concluded.
Patel’s claim that the DC National Guard reports to the mayor or to the Speaker of the House is also inaccurate. The DC National Guard reports directly to the President of the United States via the Secretary of Defense. “This authority to activate the D.C. National Guard has been delegated, by the President, to the Secretary of Defense and further delegated to the Secretary of the Army. The D.C. National Guard is the only National Guard unit, out of all of the 54 states and territories, which reports only to the President,” reads the official website of the DC National Guard.
Watch the clip above.
