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Former President Donald Trump is blaming U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Mayor of Washington D.C, Muriel Bowser for the violent siege at the Capitol on January 6.
"January
6th is her [Bowser] and Nancy's fault. 'No, I'm not kidding' (as Joe Bidden
would say!)," Trump said Sunday on his social media platform, Truth Social,
Newsweek reported.
Trump’s post
also included his earlier comments that criticized Bowser for asking the National
Guard to help deal with migrants being transported to D.C., saying she refused
to do during the Capitol riot.
Bowser seeks help from National Guard to handle influx of migrants from Texas, Arizona
According to
Newsweek, in a July 19 letter sent to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s
office and in another letter sent to the White House on July 22, Bowser
requested help from the National Guard to handle the influx of migrants transported
by bus into the city from Texas and Arizona.
Christopher
Rodriguez, director of Washington, D.C.'s emergency management agency, said in
the letter on behalf of the mayor, that the situation has reached "tipping
points" as more buses arrived in the last month, according to Newsweek.
The mayor
asked the National Guard "to help prevent a prolonged humanitarian crisis
in the nation's capital" where efforts by nonprofits helping migrants
resettle in the country became "unsustainable" as they are
"overwhelmed and underfunded," according to Newsweek.
What led to the migrant crisis in Washington?
The migrant
crisis began after Republican Governors Doug Ducey of Arizona and Greg Abbott
of Texas began shipping migrants from their states to Washington after
President Joe Biden said in April he would lift a Trump-era order restricting
border crossings to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Rodriguez noted in the letter.
More than 4000 people have been brought in with nearly 200 buses.
In a Truth
Social post, Trump criticized Bower saying, "the Mayor of Washington,
D.C., wants the National Guard to help with the thousands of Illegal
Immigrants, coming from the insane Open Border, that are flooding the City, but
refused National Guard help when it came to providing Security at the Capitol
Building for a far larger crowd on January 6th. Figure that one out?"
Trump has
been accused of refusing to take action while the rioters broke into the
Capitol following his “fight like hell” speech where he urged his supporters to
go to the Capitol and make their voices heard.
Some of the
former president’s aide testified that he watched the ensuing riot on television
at the White and said at one point “I don’t care” if they are armed, after he
was told that some of the rioters were armed.