Former Capitol Police Chief Calls Out Pelosi’s Hypocrisy Over Trump’s National Guard Deployment

Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund is speaking out forcefully against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling her out for blatant hypocrisy after she criticized President Donald Trump for deploying National Guard troops to restore order in riot-ravaged Los Angeles.

President Trump recently took decisive action, federalizing up to 4,000 California National Guard troops and ordering Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to dispatch an additional 700 U.S. Marines to the city. The deployment followed days of chaos sparked by violent left-wing protests in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations targeting criminal illegal aliens.

As Democratic leaders in California, including Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, fumbled their response and failed to protect federal personnel and buildings, President Trump stepped in to restore law and order—just as any responsible Commander-in-Chief should.

But instead of applauding this show of leadership, Pelosi used a Wednesday press conference to attack Trump, offering a historically inaccurate and constitutionally ignorant critique. “In a bipartisan way, on Jan. 6, with violence against the Constitution, against the Congress, and against the United States Capitol, we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it,” Pelosi claimed.

“And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture,” she added—ironically ignoring that Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson also federalized the National Guard in the 1960s to enforce civil rights protections.

That accusation didn’t sit well with Steven Sund, who led Capitol Police during the January 6, 2021, incident—and who has long maintained that it was Pelosi’s office that failed to act when support was most needed.

“FACT: I made 11 urgent calls requesting National Guard support on Jan 6, starting at 12:58 PM. Approval was withheld for 71 minutes by the House Sergeant at Arms, who reported directly to Speaker Pelosi. She caused critical delays, and now is shifting blame to @realDonaldTrump for failures she helped create. The record is clear,” Sund wrote on X.

Sund's account matches the official Pentagon timeline released shortly after January 6, which confirms that 340 Guardsmen had already been activated in advance to assist with crowd control. The real issue wasn’t Trump’s reluctance—it was the Democratic leadership in Congress and the D.C. government dragging their feet.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, for example, explicitly opposed a visible National Guard presence on January 6 due to political optics and her lingering disapproval of Trump’s earlier troop deployment during the George Floyd riots.

“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, [Metropolitan Police Department] if such plans are underway,” she wrote at the time, posting a copy of her letter to the Department of Defense.

But when the situation spiraled out of control, Bowser reversed course, and the Pentagon responded immediately.

“D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser requested more assistance. Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller immediately called up 1,100 members of the D.C. National Guard,” the Defense Department confirmed.

Pelosi’s attempt to rewrite history and attack President Trump for taking swift, lawful action in Los Angeles not only misrepresents the Constitution but exposes the double standard Democrats apply when it comes to enforcing law and order. Sund’s pushback is a reminder that facts still matter—despite the political narrative the Left desperately clings to.