Former Pentagon Official Testifies in Case to Keep Trump Off Colorado Ballot

Called to testify in the ‘insurrection’ clause trial, Kash Patel rebutted claims that President Trump didn’t take action to prevent the Jan. 6 events.

A file image of then National Security Council Senior Director of Counterterrorism Kashyap "Kash" Pramod Patel, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, on Oct. 27, 2019. Alex Wong/Getty Images

Former Pentagon official Kashyap “Kash” Patel asserted that the Trump administration did its part to offer National Guard personnel and other resources to U.S. Capitol and Washington police ahead of the chaos on Jan. 6, 2021, in testimony he provided at former President Donald Trump’s 14th Amendment case in Colorado.

The Nov. 1 testimony came on the third day of hearings on the case, in which plaintiffs assert that the 14th Amendment’s Civil War-era “insurrection” clause can be used to prevent President Trump from appearing on the Colorado presidential ballot due to his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol.