January 6th insurrection committee: Republicans (..and certain Fox 'news' "personalities") decided to recycle this lie, instead...

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6/9/22 news/analysis article (link): "GOP Doubles Down on Claim Pelosi Rejected National Guard Before Jan. 6 Riot"

Article excerpt: 

"House Republican leaders on Thursday repeated debunked claims that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected an offer for the National Guard to be sent to the U.S. Capitol in the lead-up to the attacks of January 6, 2021."

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3/3/21 fact check 'tweet' (plus a comment). No affiliation.  (Follow the embedded link in the original message for the full PolitiFact article:) 

There's a better chance Trump requested a Quarter Pounder with Cheese (not that there's anything wrong with that) before he requested the National Guard.

— Chris Castagnola (@Topps72) March 3, 2021

Here's an excerpted summary of PoltiFact's findings, above:

"There is no evidence that Trump made a request for 10,000 National Guard troops to be deployed for a rally he held that preceded the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

There is no evidence that Pelosi denied such a request."