“I was never given any direction or order or aware of any plan of this nature,” Miller said in the video.
Miller later said in the video definitively, “There was no direct order, there was no order from the president.”
“Obviously we had plans to activate more people, but that was just contingency planning,” Miller added. “There was no official message traffic or anything of that nature.”
Trump has previously said he ordered National Guard troops to be ready by Jan. 6. On June 9, he released a statement in which he “suggested and offered” up to 20,000 National Guard troops to be deployed to Washington, D.C., by January 6, claiming it was because he felt “that the crowd was going to be very big.”
The committee released Miller’s testimony after revealing that Trump did not make calls to military personnel or law enforcement to intervene as the attack on the Capitol was unfolding. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the committee that he never received a call from Trump while the attack was unfolding.
Milley testified before the committee that he spoke with former Vice President Mike Pence “two or three” times on January 6. Keith Kellogg, Pence’s former national security adviser, also told the committee that Trump never asked for a response from law enforcement.