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Former President Donald Trump never ordered his acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller to have 10,000 National Guard troops at the ready in preparationfor January 6 - the date Congress was tallying the results of the 2020 election. Miller - who was only Defense secretary from November 9, 2020 to January 20, 2021 - was asked about a claim former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows saying in an interview that 'as many as 10,000 National Guard troops were told to be on the ready by the secretary of Defense.'
'Not from my perspective,' Miller said. 'I was never given any direction or order or knew of any plans of that nature. So I was surprised by seeing that publicly. But I don't know the context or even where it was.'
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Miller indicated there were National Guard troops at the president's disposal to respond to January 6 but there was 'not anything more than contingency planning.'
'A non-military person probably could have some sort of weird interpretation,' he added, giving Meadows the benefit of the doubt.
'But no, the answer to your question is no,' he responded when asked if 10,000 troops had been ordered.
He also confirmed there had been no direct push from Trump. >>16839364
'That's correct there was no direct - there was no order from the president,' Miller said.