Letter: Trump Hypocrisy

During the 2020 presidential campaign Trump said as President he could not call in the National Guard without a request from the governor of the state. Yet in 2025 he does just that. His justification was the riots and danger to the police by the protesters of his immigration raids. On January 6, 2021, he waited 3 hours to call off the rioters threatening to hang the Vice President and the Speaker of the House, rioters who injured 140 D.C. police, and who did 40 to 50 million dollars' worth of damage to our Capitol building and stopped the certification of the election by the Congress. This year he pardoned those same rioters. What was the difference in the two events? The January 6th rioters were supporting him; the protesters today are against his policy and are in a Democratic-controlled city and state.