It's amazing how tone-deaf former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) can be and still keep her job in the House.

When she compared President Donald Trump's activation of the National Guard to reduce crime in Washington, D.C. to the absence of the Guard at the January 6 Capitol riot, former Capitol police chief Steven Sund reminded her that it was her Sergeant at Arms who denied his request to have the Guard there.

"Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our Capitol was under violent attack and lives were at stake," Pelosi posted to X. "Now, he’s activating the DC Guard to distract from his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, health care, education and immigration — just to name a few blunders."

"Be honest"

"Ma’am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people," he wrote in a lengthy post on X. "On January 3, I requested National Guard assistance, but your Sergeant at Arms denied it. Under federal law (2 U.S.C. §1970), I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval. That same day, Carol Corbin at the Pentagon offered National Guard support, but I was forced to decline because I lacked the legal authority.

"On January 6, while the Capitol was under attack and despite my repeated calls, your Sergeant at Arms again denied my urgent requests for over 70 agonizing minutes, 'running it up the chain' for your approval," he continued. "When I needed assistance, it was denied. Yet when it suited you, you ordered fencing topped with concertina wire and surrounded the Capitol with thousands of armed National Guard troops."

Pelosi loves to play the blame game when it suits her, but she previously admitted that she bears some responsibility for those Guard troops not being there in the Capitol's time of need.

“We're calling the National Guard now? They should have been here to start out,” Pelosi said in HBO footage filmed by her daughter Alexandra in a documentary about the incident. “How many times did members ask, are we prepared? Are we prepared? We're not prepared for the worst ... We will have totally failed. And we've got to take some responsibility."

The blame game

Pelosi loved blaming Trump for the disruption and violence of that day, conveniently ignoring the fact that he was miles away when it happened and urged peacefulness both before it happened and when he got the news about it.

She quickly went back to ignoring her part in it when the opportunity came to dig at Trump once again.

Trump said he was deploying the National Guard and federalizing D.C. police because of the district's high level of violent crime, which he pointed out in a Monday press conference was higher than many cities around the world considered violent (Mexico City, for one).

Trump was outraged when one of his top DOGE staffers, Edward Coristine, was attacked by a group of teenagers who had surrounded Coristine and his significant other in an attempt to carjack them in the Logan Circle area of the city.

Coristine was battered bloody and suffered a concussion in the attack, for which several 15-year-olds have been arrested and detained.

Coristine was fortunate that a police cruiser pulled up to the site of the attack and caused the attackers to scatter, or he might be dead.

Police are circulating a photo of a third attacker.