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Former US Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund made a surprising revelation during testimony before Congress on Tuesday that echoes a claim previously made by former President Donald Trump.

During testimony, Sund claimed that three days before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol building, U.S. House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving rejected Sund's request to deploy hundreds of National Guard soldiers because Irving told then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “he would never accept it,” The Epoch Times reported.

Sund made his disclosure to the House Oversight Committee during a 90-minute hearing, the outlet added.

In what was his first testimony before a House committee since he was forced to resign on January 8, two days after the incident (he was not called at all to testify before Pelosi's hand-picked January 6 Committee ), Sund said he was frustrated by the rejection of the troop offer because his presence that day, he believes, would have been a “game changer.”