For the past few years, Democrats and the media have flatly disputed and "fact-checked" former President Donald Trump's claim that he desired and asked for the deployment of National Guard troops at the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, to prevent the expected protest from getting out of hand.

Now, released transcripts of prior interviews with senior military officials appear to confirm that Trump's claim is correct and the Democrats and media have been pushing a false narrative that blamed the former president for the lack of troops to prevent the Capitol riot, according to TheBlaze's Steve Baker.

Baker wrote, "Breaking: Transcripts reveal President Trump did, in fact, notify top Pentagon officials of his desire for National Guard deployment on #J6."

Senior military leaders acknowledged that Trump discussed deploying troops ahead of riot

The transcripts Baker referenced were interviews with top military officials as part of a Defense Department Inspector General's report, the Jan. 6 Select Committee's investigation, and the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, the latter of which publicly released the transcripts on Friday.

Committee Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) said in a statement that the transcripts proved that then-President Trump had asked for National Guard troops to be deployed at the Capitol ahead of the Jan. 6 protest-turned-riot but that "Pentagon leadership prioritized concerns of optics over their duty to protect lives."

"President Trump met with senior Pentagon leaders and directed them to make sure any events on January 6, 2021 were safe," he continued. "It is very concerning that these Senior Pentagon officials ignored President Trump’s guidance AND misled Congressional Leaders to believe they were doing their job, when they were not."

"The DoD IG’s report is fundamentally flawed. It does not draw conclusions from the interviews they conducted, but pushes a narrative to keep their hands clean," the congressman added. "We have many questions for them, and we will continue to dig until we are satisfied the American people know the truth."

Police, National Guard leadership wanted to deploy immediately but were delayed

The Oversight Subcommittee released a two-page summary of key quotes from the full transcripts, which included former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley telling the DoD IG that former President Trump had told him on Jan. 3, 2021, that because of the "large amount of protesters" that were expected on Jan. 6, he wanted there to be "sufficient National Guard or Soldiers to make sure it’s a safe event."

Christopher Miller, the acting Defense secretary at the time, recalled to the Jan. 6 Select Committee that Trump told him they were "going to need 10,000 troops" to keep the peace but that he'd dismissed the comment as "banter" and that "in no way, shape, or form did I interpret that as an order or direction."

Yet, other quotes from Miller indicated a bias against the former president and the DoD IG quoted him as expressing concern that Trump would politicize the military and saying, "There was absolutely -- there is absolutely no way I was putting U.S. military forces at the Capitol, period."

The released transcripts also featured quotes from current and former law enforcement and military officials who strongly indicated that Gen. Walter Piatt, the then-director of Army Staff, bore responsibility for the decision to delay the deployment of National Guard troops to the Capitol building for several hours because he was concerned about the "optics" of using military troops to quell the protest-turned-riot.

That included former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who repeatedly begged for troops to bolster his overwhelmed officers, and several senior command officers of the D.C. National Guard who expressed frustration at being stalled from deploying for several hours by Pentagon leadership while they were ready and the riot was ongoing.

Did the Jan. 6 Select Committee hide testimony that supported Trump's claim about NG troops?

These transcripts appear to bolster the allegedly suppressed testimony of former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato to the Jan. 6 Select Committee, according to a Fox News report in March, in which he asserted that former President Trump had offered to authorize the use of 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capitol but had been turned down by senior Pentagon officials.

In a statement at that time, Chairman Loudermilk said, "The former J6 Select Committee apparently withheld Mr. Ornato’s critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their pre-determined narrative. Mr. Ornato’s testimony proves what [former White House Chief of Staff Mark] Meadows has said all along: President Trump did in fact offer 10,000 National Guard troops to secure the U.S. Capitol, which was turned down."