On the recordJuly 27, 2022
Mr. Trump unequivocally authorized up to 20,000 National Guardsmen and women for us to utilize should the second part of the law, the requests come in, but those requests never did as you highlighted.
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msnbc.comKash Patel: “Mr. Trump unequivocally authorized up to 20,000 National Guardsmen and women for us to utilize should the second part of…”
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Patel states that Trump authorized National Guardsmen but that requests for their deployment did not come in.
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