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Former Capitol Police Chief Gives Pelosi a 'Reminder' About J6 After She Blamed Trump

Nancy Pelosi just got a very public "fact check" from the man who was in charge of Capitol security on January 6 - and it's not a 
good look for the former House Speaker.

The California Democrat unloaded on President Donald Trump Monday after he announced a sweeping federal crime crackdown in 
Washington, D.C., taking direct control of the Metropolitan Police Department and activating the D.C. National Guard to patrol the 
streets.

"Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our Capitol was under violent attack and lives were at 
stake," Pelosi fumed. "Now, he's activating the D.C. Guard to distract from his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, health care, 
education and immigration - just to name a few blunders."

It didn't take long for former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund - who resigned after the Jan. 6 riot - to hit back, and hard.

"Ma'am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people," Sund said in a scathing statement. He recounted how on January 
3,2021, just three days before the riot, he formally requested National Guard support. That request, he says, was shot down by 
Pelosi's own Sergeant at Arms.

"Under federal law (2 U.S.C. §1970), I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval," Sund explained. "That same 
day, Carol Corbin at the Pentagon offered National Guard support, but I was forced to decline because I lacked the legal 
authority."

When January 6 arrived and chaos erupted, Sund said he begged again for the Guard - and was stalled for over an hour. "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," Sund wrote.

He then accused Pelosi of hypocrisy: "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."

Pelosi's own daughter showed the Speaker on Jan. 6 telling aides she wanted Trump to come to the Capitol so she could "punch him 
out" and "go to jail... happy."

The remarks were caught on camera for an HBO documentary and aired by CNN. In the clip, Pelosi's staff told her the Secret Service 
had dissuaded Trump from coming due to security concerns, but Pelosi replied, "I hope he comes. This is my moment. I've been 
waiting for this."

It is still a mystery why she wasn't "waiting" to authorize the National Guard to secure the Capitol through the House Sergeant at 
Arms, as former Chief Sund highlights.

Trump on Monday called his D.C. crime crackdown "liberation day" for the capital, vowing to rid the city of violent gangs, roving 
mobs, and 'drugged-out maniacs." The move gives the president full control of the MPD for 30 days under the Home Rule Act, and he 
warned that New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles could be next.

"Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals... and we're not going to take it anymore," Trump 
declared at the White House. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Guard troops from D.C. and other states will be deployed within 
days as "force multipliers" for local and federal officers.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, calling the takeover "unsettling and unprecedented," said she would nonetheless comply, adding, 
"Everybody should follow the law, the police and the community."

It is odd that Mayor Bowser doesn't find it "unsettling" that she failed to secure the Capitol ahead of January 6, despite the 
repeated warnings. Bowser addressed a letter to acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy and 
acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller prior to the January 6 riot.

"To be clear, the District of Columbia is not requesting other federal law enforcement personnel and discourages any additional 
deployment without immediate notification to, and consultation with, MPD if such plans are underway," she wrote in the letter.

The irony wasn't lost on political observers: Trump is now deploying the very D.C. Guard he has been accused of withholding on Jan. 
6 - and the former Capitol Police Chief is now on record saying it wasn't him who blocked them at all.

Sund's remarks revive a bitter political fight over who bears responsibility for the Guard delay that day. Democrats have long 
blamed Trump personally, suggesting he refused to send reinforcements as the riot unfolded. Trump and his allies counter that 
security planning for the Capitol fell under congressional leadership - meaning Pelosi's office was at the center of the decision-
making process.

In addition, it is a documented fact that Trump instructed the Pentagon to secure the capitol, ahead of expected election 
objections, and that included a pre-authorization for as many as 10,000 National Guard troops.

With Trump once again in the Oval Office and now exercising emergency control over the capital's streets, the battle over the truth 
about January 6 is front-page politics all over again. And judging by Sund's blunt words, he's not letting Pelosi rewrite the 
record to fit her political narratives.

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a 
punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in 
reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."