Gee, you mean it was all political theater?

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Thousands of national Guardsmen evicted from Capitol, crammed into parking garage

One unit, which had been resting in the Dirksen Senate Office building, was abruptly told to vacate the facility on Thursday, according to one Guardsman. The group was forced to rest in a nearby parking garage without internet reception, with just one electrical outlet, and one bathroom with two stalls for 5,000 troops, the person said. Temperatures in Washington were in the low 40s by nightfall.

The outcry has been so loud, the optics so bad, that at midnight this morning it was announced that they could return.

“Yesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines taking photos, shaking our hands and thanking us for our service. Within 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage. We feel incredibly betrayed,” a National Guardsman told Politico.

In the wake of the Capitol riot on January 6, Washington, D.C., has effectively been shut down, with bridges from Virginia blocked and National Guard occupying most streets in the capital. While authorities had reportedly picked up on chatter of threats before the Inauguration, those threats failed to materialize.

While Pelosi had condemned federal law enforcement in the harshest of terms when President Donald Trump deployed them to Portland — comparing them to stormtroopers — she happily shared photos of herself with the National Guard in D.C. after January 6.