Continued January 6th finger-pointing from California Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D) found the former chief of police calling her out over actions taken “when it suited” her.”
“Ma’am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people.”
Monday in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump took executive action to tamp down on crime in the nation’s capital while also striving for cleanliness in the city. His utilization of the National Guard and the FBI, among other resources, found Pelosi swinging for the fences only to whiff when she was reminded once more by then-U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who held authority on Jan. 6, 2021.
“On January 6, while the Capitol was under attack and despite my repeated calls, your Sergeant at Arms again denied my urgent requests for over 70 agonizing minutes, ‘running it up the chain’ for your approval,” the 25-year veteran of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department posted in part Monday.
He also addressed efforts prior to the breach of the Capitol and began, “Ma’am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people. On January 3, I requested National Guard assistance, but your Sergeant at Arms denied it. Under federal law … I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval. That same day, Carol Corbin at the Pentagon offered National Guard support, but I was forced to decline because I lacked the legal authority.”
Ma’am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people. On January 3, I requested National Guard assistance, but your Sergeant at Arms denied it. Under federal law (2 U.S.C. §1970), I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval. That same day, Carol…
— Chief Steven Sund (@ChiefSund) August 11, 2025
Sund, who summarily ratioed the former House Speaker’s post that was viewed over 4.6 million times in less than a day, was responding to Pelosi’s claim that it was Trump who’d stalled a response on Jan. 6, and that he was only now taking action in D.C. for political reasons.
“Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our Capitol was under violent attack and lives were at stake,” she contended. “Now, he’s activating the DC Guard to distract from his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, health care, education, and immigration — just to name a few blunders.”
Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our Capitol was under violent attack and lives were at stake.
Now, he’s activating the DC Guard to distract from his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, health care, education and immigration — just to name a…
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) August 11, 2025
Previously, Pelosi claimed that it was Republicans who were attempting “revisionist history” after a video was released of her being escorted through the Capitol parking complex in a vehicle on Jan. 6, expressing to her Chief of Staff Terri McCullough, “We have responsibility, Terri. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there. And we should have.”
“This is ridiculous. You’re going to ask me in the middle of the thing, when they’ve already breached the inaugural stuff that should we call the Capitol Police? I mean the National Guard? Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?” she carried on. “They clearly didn’t know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepared for more.”
Meanwhile, as the DC Police Union lauded Trump’s actions as a “critical stopgap” to course correct the current “out of control” trajectory of the nation’s capital, Sund concluded his message to Pelosi by reminding, “When I needed assistance, it was denied. Yet when it suited you, you ordered fencing topped with concertina wire and surrounded the Capitol with thousands of armed National Guard troops.”
Others added to the roasting of the former speaker, including by bringing receipts like Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) rejection of additional federal law enforcement personnel a day prior to the breach.
Here is the letter Mayor Bowser wrote on J5 rejecting Trump’s offer to have Nat Guard at J6 rally to keep the peace. Kash Patel used the letter as evidence in the case in CO trying to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot. Bowser even posted the letter herself on X that same day with… pic.twitter.com/QoFyyKxCFK
— The Edison Zero (@EdisonZeroEvent) August 11, 2025
Clearly she forgets about the leaked video with her and her daughter in the back of the limo where she says she was responsible.
The lies from these people are simply exhausting.
— Prognostikater (@prognostikater) August 11, 2025
Lies getting exposed in real time is incredible
— beanskiii (@beanskino) August 11, 2025
You’re literally on camera admitting you failed on J6
— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) August 11, 2025
This is completely false. The emails of him requesting the National Guard on days prior to 1/6 have been released.
Instead of lying and gaslighting, why don’t you go back to what you do best, which is insider trading and drinking.
— Mark Hardy (@markhardyseeks) August 11, 2025
A classic tactic used by politicians: point one finger of accusation while the other four point back at themselves.
— T.t (@tosino007) August 11, 2025
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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