Then-President Donald Trump could have mobilized the National Guard and other federal agencies to protect the US Capitol once violence broke out on January 6, 2021, a law professor testified Tuesday as a case to bar the former president from the 2024 ballot moved into a new phase. William Banks, a Syracuse University law professor and expert in national security law, said that once the attack on the Capitol began, Trump had options he did not use.
“He should respond to his constitutional responsibilities to protect the security of the United States when there’s an assault on our democratic process,” Banks said of Trump.
Banks was testifying as a witness for a group of Colorado voters who want to bar Trump from the ballot for allegedly violating his oath to uphold the Constitution in his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss.
