so technically when Trump said he asked Nancy Pelosi for more National Guard that was a absolutely big lie it's a bit more complicated than a straightforward lck claim that Trump asks Nancy Pelosi for additional National Guard support before January 6 is misleading as Speaker of the House Pelosi did not have direct authority over the National Guard or Capital Security so she would not have been the one to approve or deploy such forces the authority to deploy National Guard in Washington DC lies with the president who has to make the formal request through the Department of Defense in the case of Capital Security decisions would have been made by the capital police and the Department of Defense with input from the mayor of DC and other federal agencies while Trump did Express concerns about potential unrest leading up to January 6th there is no concrete evidence that he directly asked Pelosi for more National Guard troops